Syria, Islamist

Unifying Syria’s diverse ethnic and religious groups has been one of the major challenges of a post-Assad Syria. A significant escalation of violence could threaten the country’s fragile ...
Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...
The Kurdish Human Rights Network in Syria, along with several Kurdish human rights organizations, issued a strong ...
A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated ...
Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...
Recent violence in Syria has sparked fears of further instability as leaders call for lifting sanctions to ease economic woes ...