Oweis said Syrian forces looted hundreds of Christian homes during the assault on Alawite communities between the coastal towns of Tartus and Latakia. Jihadis stormed the home of Oweis’s friend and ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

A few days ago, 48-year-old Johnny S., a Greek Orthodox Christian from Syria, found the courage to leave his home in Latakia, ...

It was a bloody weekend in Syria, where forces loyal to the government reportedly killed hundreds of civilians.

This raised doubts that the new leadership’s intent was not only to suppress armed dissent but also to punish the civilian population. The tensions along Syria’s coastal region and in the Latakia ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

"Assad and Al-Sharaa are both enemy regimes," says Sheikh Abdallah Al-Tamimi, a Syrian scholar and peace activist who has ...

Yes, Syria faces its own distinct set of challenges. But at a minimum, it must move quickly avoid the sectarian fractures that devastated post-Saddam Iraq. Iraq’s policy of de-Baathification stands ...

Though the new regime in Damascus seems to have quelled sectarian violence and secured a deal to merge Kurdish forces into ...