Because of its religious diversity and bloody history during the civil war, the city is considered a test case for the new ...

The United States is a beacon for religious freedom. That’s a regrettably rare thing around the world. Pew Research’s 2022 Report on Government Restrictions on Religion showed that restrictions in 198 ...

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on his legacy, hopeful Bashar al-Assad's ouster might help reveal the Jesuit's ...

But Alawites, from a branch of Shiite Islam, have an acute fear of reprisals because of their connection to the Assad clan, which recruited from and favoured its own religious community for ...

Assad’s regime in Syria was overthrown, an Iranian magazine revealed details of the first meeting between former Iranian ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Armed factions in Syria are reacting to a recent decision by the new leadership in Damascus to dissolve all armed groups.

The specter of an uncontrolled jihadist resurgence is just one of the potential challenges facing Syria as the new government ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurds and the new Syrian administration have very different aspirations for the country, but the ...

The regime of the Syrian dictator systematically devastated numerous cities, preventing the displaced from returning to their places of origin. The presence of the new governor of Damascus, Maher ...

Once Syria’s most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator. Jan. 23, 2025 “We have enough of our people in SDF areas that we don’t even ...