Governments worldwide are stepping up efforts to engage with Syria's new interim rulers, just over a week after Islamist-led rebels ousted president Bashar al-Assad, ending decades of brutal rule ...

"Muslims were the rulers of this land ... They said: 'We are two different nations and we need two separate countries'." Tim Mansel/BBC Allah Rakha teaches his students that Hindus and Muslims ...

Syria's new rulers have installed some foreign fighters including Uyghurs, a Jordanian and a Turk in the country's armed forces as Damascus tries to shape a patchwork of rebel groups into a ...