all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland. After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure ...

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

The mounting chaos in Homs exemplifies the challenge Mr Sharaa faces all over Syria. His government must ensure the safety of ...

Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File) Crucially, most of the military leadership did not defect. This was due in part to the ...

There has been a serious escalation on the Lebanon-Syria border over the past week after Syrian forces launched an operation ...

Her sister, Nadia, is an Alawite, but her boyfriend is Christian. “We don’t think it will be acceptable for them to be in an interreligious relationship,” Fatima adds. Syria is a Sunni ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Alawites account for about nine percent of Syria’s population, or around 1.7 million people. The community has been repeatedly targeted since Assad’s ouster.

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 ...