A fresh ceasefire agreement has been brokered between Syrian government officials and leaders of the Druze religious minority on Wednesday - the second truce in as many days, after the first collapsed ...

After the eruption of the Syrian conflict in 2011, a PYD-affiliated armed group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), established control of Kurdish-majority areas in northern Syria. Under the banner ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

A Syrian government investigation says sectarian violence along the coast earlier this year has left over 1,400 people dead, ...

A blood-soaked week illustrates the perils and challenges faced by the young government.

The Syrian government says clashes in the southern city of Suwayda have stopped after a week of violence left hundreds of ...

The violence was the first major incident to emerge after the ouster of longtime President Bashar Assad in December.

A Syrian government investigation says more than 1,400 people died in sectarian violence along the coast earlier this year.

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria this week has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war ...

Once again, images of horrifying violence are pouring out of Syria: dead bodies piled up in a hospital corridor. Gunmen ...

The head of a U.N. investigative commission on Friday called commitments made by the new authorities in Syria to protect the rights of minorities “encouraging” but said attacks have continued ...