The humanitarian situation in Syria is dire, with 175,000 people displaced by violence in Suweida, a region already ...

While a fragile ceasefire has largely calmed fighting in southern Syria's Sweida province, the humanitarian situation has ...

A deepening humanitarian crisis and minority grievances complicate Syria’s bid for a centralised state, 14 years after its ...

Syria is plunging deeper into an alarming humanitarian crisis that could spiral out of control, an independent UN body warned on Tuesday. The Commission of Inquiry on Syria, which is made up of ...

The interim government of Syria must grant more autonomy to minority groups if it wants to survive and succeed.

About 30,000 mostly Druze people are thought to be trapped inside the besieged city of Sweida and surrounding towns, with no electricity, little internet and dwindling supplies of food and water.

Syria’s 13-year-long civil war set off a humanitarian crisis that could persist under a new government. Nicole Tung for The New York Times ...

Syria's 22 million people are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, but Assad and the ruling elite belong to the Alawite sect, which comprises about 10 percent of the population.

Human rights groups for years have cited poor living conditions and pervasive violence in the al-Hol camp, which the ...

MOSCOW, March 19 (Reuters) - The humanitarian situation in Syria is likely get worse, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday, underlining the need for "urgent ...