BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials ...

The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control. Military ...

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee ...

al-Shara would extend any real power beyond his tight-knit circle of allies and make good on his pledge to create an inclusive government that represents all of Syria’s disparate religious and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

IRBIL, Syria (AP) — The annual parade by Assyrian Christians in the Iraqi city of Dohuk to mark their new year was marred ...

Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Shara ... Al-Shara has pledged to create an inclusive government, one that represents all religious and ethnic groups, and unlike many other conservative ...

Separately on Monday, two unidentified gunmen killed six people in Homs, a city in western Syria known for its religious diversity, with a majority of Sunni Muslims and a significant Alawite ...

Syria's new Sunni Islamist-led authorities have been under pressure from the West and Arab countries to form a government that is more inclusive of the country's diverse ethnic and religious ...