A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

A video purporting to show the execution-style murder of American Hosam Saraya raises new questions about the Trump-endorsed ...

Relatives and officials say a Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority is among dozens of civilians killed in ...

A Syrian government investigation says more than 1,400 people died in sectarian violence along the coast earlier this year.

Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then Israel intervened, bombing Damascus.

After over a decade in exile, many Syrians living abroad are contemplating what was once unthinkable: going home. But what ...

Barrack suggested that Israel would prefer to see Syria fragmented and divided rather than a strong central state in control ...

It was often pointed to as justification for the intervention of militants from Iran, Lebanon and Iraq in the Syrian conflict in support of former President Bashar Assad. An ordinance ... In Damascus' ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once bustling with pilgrims, the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area is now subdued, ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in Damascus to meet the onetime Al Qaeda commander. This video drawn from the ...

Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish air strikes. A photo series by Angéline Desdevises portrays the hardships ...