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 ...

Syria under President Ahmad Sharaa remains far from achieving genuine national reconciliation, a meaningful political ...

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

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

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

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

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria this week has deepened ...

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 ...