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

SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Syrians have been the worlds largest refugee population. More than 6 million Syrians have fled the country since 2011, when ...

Religious divisions were stark. Sunni Muslims, forming a slim majority, clashed with Shia Muslims and smaller sects like the Alawites and Druze. Among Christians, who comprised a quarter of the ...

"Not just minorities - Christians, Alawites, Druze - but also quite a lot of Sunni Muslims in places like Damascus and Aleppo, where you have a fairly large secular, cosmopolitan population that's ...

TUNIS, January 27. /TASS/. Five people, including one child, were killed after militants attacked an Alawite village near the city of Hama in central Syria, the Al Watan newspaper reported.

“Not just minorities – Christians, Alawites, Druze – but also quite a lot of Sunni Muslims in places like Damascus and Aleppo, where you have a fairly large secular, cosmopolitan population ...