Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

One man accused of killing an Alawite during the sectarian violence in March tells the BBC that armed civilians were advised ...

Gunmen have killed six Alawite civilians on the coast and in the interior of the country in the past 24 hours, sources in the ...

The spiritual leader of the Israeli Druze, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to press for military ...

Four days of clashes between pro-government gunmen and members of a minority sect in Syria have left nearly 100 people dead ...

A recent surge in violence against Syria’s Druze religious community has reportedly seen over 100 people killed since the ...

The group, the Alawites Association of the United States, which presents itself as a representative of the Alawite religious ...

As transitional justice remains out of reach, hundreds of extrajudicial killings—predominantly of Alawites—have taken place ...

When the leader of Syria shook hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, it was a striking moment for a man who was an al-Qaida ...

After the overthrow of the Assad regime, Syria’s journey to national harmony may take a decade or more — even once the ...

Syria cannot hope to rebuild itself if it fails in preventing sectarian tensions from erupting into wide-scale violence.