A fresh ceasefire agreement has been brokered between Syrian government officials and leaders of the Druze religious minority on Wednesday - the second truce in as many days, after the first collapsed ...

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

A blood-soaked week illustrates the perils and challenges faced by the young government.

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

A fact-finding committee presented findings on a wave of sectarian killings earlier this year. Human rights experts said the ...

The violence was the first major incident to emerge after the ouster of longtime President Bashar Assad in December.

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

The Syrian government says clashes in the southern city of Suwayda have stopped after a week of violence left hundreds of ...

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

Once again, images of horrifying violence are pouring out of Syria: dead bodies piled up in a hospital corridor. Gunmen ...

Sharaa vowed to protect minority groups including the Druze and the Alawites, who formerly dominated power in Syria. But ...