waving Kurdish flags alongside the new, three-starred Syrian flag. In the village of Hemo, just outside the city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria, the Kurdish flag, along with flags of Abdullah ...

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad ...

Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to a vote. In a landslide, a winner was chosen. Of nearly 385,000 votes cast, the existing bunting received 43% ...

But this month the worst outbreak of deadly violence since Assad was toppled in December rocked confidence in the new Islamist-led authorities. "Syria is at the crossroads," Spoljaric said ...

"Hezbollah is trying to take advantage of the new government’s weakness in Syria, but the group itself is in a precarious position. It has suffered major setbacks from Israeli strikes ...

Front row left to right, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani and European Commissioner for the ...

(photo credit: REUTERS/KHALIL ASHAWI/FILE PHOTO, SHUTTERSTOCK) Syria’s new government has been forced to confront Hezbollah in Lebanon after several members of the Syrian security forces were ...

Victims and survivors of revenge attacks in Syria have told Sky News how families are being "slaughtered" amid a new wave of violence. After three months of relative peace, there have been attacks ...

As Syria's post-Assad regime meets with European donors in Brussels today, key questions over the conduct of the new regime will be under the spotlight. Since the fall of Syria’s ex-dictator ...

European Union countries will continue to back Syria’s new leadership through both financial aid and sanctions relief despite an outbreak of sectarian violence threatening the country’s stability, the ...

Syria Donors Pledge $6.5 Billion in Aid Hoping to Encourage Its New Leaders Down the Path to Peace BRUSSELS (AP) — International donors on Monday pledged almost 6 billion euros ($6.5 billion ...

By Ben Hubbard Syria’s new president has spoken often about the urgency of merging the many armed groups that fought to topple the strongman Bashar al-Assad into a unified national army.