- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic Syria. Groups include the Greek Orthodox, Maronites, Syriac Orthodox and ...

Recent violence in Syria has sparked fears of further instability as leaders call for lifting sanctions to ease economic woes ...

Lebanon could be on the brink of a “massive” new refugee crisis if massacres of the Alawite minority in Syria continue, ...

The U.N. warns “entire families” have been killed in recent sectarian attacks in Syria’s coastal region, which is home to the ...

On top of all this, the Syrian people are getting frustrated. Electricity supply is limited to a few hours a day. An influx of cheap Turkish goods is undercutting local manufacturers. Government ...

Some of the Syrians who sought sanctuary at a Russian air base from sectarian killings are trickling home to devastated ...

Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in ...

The blood spilled in Syria's Alawite villages and cities cries out for acknowledgement. Will we listen, or turn away, comfortable in our selective compassion?

Intellectuals from Turkey have submitted an application to the International Criminal Court in The Hague regarding the ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

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 ...