When she began wearing the hijab, critics accused Al-Khudari of abandoning her sect, but now Al-Khudari and other Syrian women are leading the charge to ease religious tensions in their communities.

Under the Syrian dictator’s rule, the wives and children of rebels were seized as leverage. Some are now speaking about their ...

24 October 2013, After the storm of conflict and flight from war, a refugee camp offers shelter, safety, food, water – and numbing boredom, days filled with little but mundane tasks. A few women, no ...

Syrian table tennis star Hend Zaza claimed the silver medal in the women’s singles event at the Islamic Solidarity Games in ...

First parliament after overthrow of Bashar al-Assad Start of process to pick nearly two-thirds of 210-seat body Sharaa's selection of remaining share could address women, minority gaps, official says ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian government-led committee has found that most allegations of kidnapping of women from the Alawite religious minority were false, the findings of the monthslong probe ...

Most of the refugees are crossing into the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Istanbul, Sept. 22, 2013— -- Marjie Middleton, a midwife working with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), spent several months this ...

HASAKAH, Syria—Inside a sprawling facility in northern Syria this summer, a group of U.S.-backed Kurdish special forces trained a cadre of their next generation of fighters. All of them were women.