The more pressing problem for Damascus will be that the elections will not help heal the country’s deep wounds at a time of ...

Pastor Samir Yacco pastor of Christ the Redeemer of the World Baptist Church in Dwelia a suburb of Damacus has been in Australia speaking to Anglican Aid and churches about what happening in Syria.

The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last December was so swift and surreal that the initial euphoria lingered both inside ...

War crimes were likely committed by interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to Syria's former rulers during ...

An inquiry found that members of the new government’s forces took part in killing Syrian civilians during sectarian fighting ...

With Syria’s minorities allying to demand decentralisation, tensions continue over how to balance local autonomy with the ...

Hizbullah’s grip on the state has never looked weaker. Many of its leaders are dead. Its armoury is depleted. It has lost ...

A UN commission investigating sectarian bloodshed in Syria's Alawite heartland documented systematic violence at the hands of ...

Representatives from Syria's ethnic and religious groups have called for a decentralized state and a new constitution ensuring pluralism.

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

The Alawites emerged as a distinct religious community in the 10th century in the region of the Latakia coastal mountains, which today make up northwestern Syria.

More Among Syria’s minorities, two key factors make the Alawites most vulnerable to mass violence in post-Assad Syria. The first factor is that, like the Druze, Alawites have their own distinct ...