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

At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by ...

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

After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure minorities in multi-ethnic multi-confessional Syria that they will be protected.

At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland. After Islamist-led ...

GHAJAR — On a recent morning in the Alawite village of Ghajar, straddling the border between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, children played in the school playground, a woman hung her laundry on the ...

The boys "were supposed to finish school this year", she said quietly. Alawites account for about nine percent of Syria's population, or around 1.7 million people. The community has been ...

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham ...

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