The Druze, a religious minority with deep roots in southern Syria, have long fought to preserve autonomy, from resisting ...

The UN human rights chief says his office has received credible reports indicating widespread violations and abuses, including summary executions and arbitrary killings, during the recent violence in ...

Following deadly clashes against the Druze and Alawites minorities, and amid the planned dissolution of the Kurdish PKK, Syria's Kurds are at a critical juncture. In the aftermath of the latest ...

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

The UN Security Council voiced concerns on Sunday regarding the violence and attacks against civilians in Syria’s Sweida region. The Security Council adopted a presidential statement, document ...

A United States-brokered truce between Israel and Syria was announced in tandem with Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa ...

Syria’s new authorities have set up a committee tasked with investigating attacks on civilians during recent sectarian ...

Calm returned to southern Syria's Sweida province on Sunday, a monitor and AFP correspondents reported, after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more ...

BEIRUT — An eruption of violence in Syria this week entangled government forces, Bedouin tribes, the Druze religious minority and neighboring Israel, and highlighted just how combustible the ...

The violence came after President Trump lifted longstanding sanctions against Syria in late June, interpreted by al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, as a “greenlight from the world to do what ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — More than 1,400 people were killed in several days of sectarian violence on Syria ’s coast earlier this year, a government investigating committee said Tuesday.

DAMASCUS, Syria — The death toll from the violence in southern Syria's Sweida province continues to climb, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, reporting at ...