Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Syria’s conflict started as one of the popular uprisings against Arab dictators known as the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad crushed the largely peaceful protests and a civil war erupted. Half a ...

Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children scavenge in dumpsters for food. Men pull copper wire from buildings and ...

The same commander became Syria’s new president after a rebel alliance he led ousted the ... he wore a red one — the colors of their flags. Many conservative Muslim men keep their wives ...

toppled on Dec. 8 by a coalition of rebel fighters led by the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS. The sweaters, wrist bands and beanies emblazoned with Syria’s revolutionary flag are ...

In December, when the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ... had herself filmed and held up the new Syrian flag. "Look where I am, we're back," she wrote to her friends.

Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems ...

The UN called for peace in Syria as the country prepared to mark 14 years since the uprising against Bashar Al Assad with ...

Pic: Reuters Former Syrian president Bashar al Assad. Pic: Reuters The lightning offensive which saw Assad flee was carried out by a rebel alliance led by the Islamist militant group Hay'at Tahrir ...

Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.