A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.

Lebanon marked a solemn milestone – the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of its civil war, a devastating conflict that ...

The sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in Syria’s modern history, including the 14 years of civil ...

Syria and South Korea established formal diplomatic relations on Thursday. This comes a month plus after Syrian sectarian ...

For 54 years, Syria existed in the shadow of a silence so profound, it swallowed entire lives.

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

After ousting Assad, Syria’s new rulers have been stamping out the “land bridge” that Iran used to project regional power by arming Hezbollah and other allies.

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

President Ahmed al-Sharaa gives fact-finding committee a three-month extension to file report into Alawite killings.

The U.S. has sent more forces to Syria, tamping down on the immediate threat, but experts warn that the extremist group could ...