The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

This is particularly important because Al-Assad's regime, led by a family from the Alawite Muslim minority, had long positioned itself as a protector of minorities, albeit while brutally ...

Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...

Despite the rhetoric of HTS leaders about tolerance for minorities, there’s more developing behind the scenes than is being ...

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not itself guarantee peace in a country so recently riven by autocratic rule and a ...

Assad’s regime, the status of minorities and their future is among the most crucial questions. Although many people have celebrated the downfall of Assad’s dictatorship, [...] ...

People celebrate, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, at Majdal Anjar in Bekaa, ...