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This interview with Hüseyin Ovayolu accompanies our online release of his photographic collection Uprooted, a black and white ...

Also in our car was Hwaida Saad, a longtime Lebanon reporter for The Times who had covered Syria in depth and with great ...

Israel launched rare strikes in Damascus on Wednesday in a campaign it said was aimed at defending the Druze community after ...

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

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.

Syria's government has begun evacuating Bedouin families from the southern province of Sweida after over a week of clashes ...

Tensions between Israel and Syria have reached a boiling point. The Syrian Army has reportedly withdrawn from the key Druze city of Sweida following relentless Israeli airstrikes. Damascus lies in ...

A Syrian government investigation says sectarian violence along the coast earlier this year has left over 1,400 people dead, ...

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war.

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with ...