In Sweida, a stronghold of the Druze community in southern Syria, the community fights to ensure the new regime acknowledges ...
Hundreds of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham fighters poured into the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on Sunday in an ...
“The question remains whether the dream of a Syria for all Syrians will materialize—not just for Sunnis like al-Jolani but also for Kurds, Druze, Yazidis, Alawites, and Christians ...
The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...
Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...
In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face could be an informer. “See those ...
Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...
Three-quarters of Syria’s 23 million citizens are Sunnis, one-tenth are Alawites, and the rest are a mix of Christians, ...
Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...