A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world. Damascus between the Druze, Alawites, and ...

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

March 2025More than 1,400 people died in March in attacks on security forces and subsequent mass killings of Alawites, a ...

Following deadly clashes against the Druze and Alawites minorities, and amid the planned dissolution of the Kurdish PKK, ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -A Syrian fact-finding committee said on Tuesday that 1,426 people, including 90 women, were killed during ...

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Will the U.S. push the Druze and Kurds to capitulate to Damascus as if nothing has changed?

Alawites have long been associated with the previous Syrian regime; many of Assad’s armed forces, high-ranking officers and officials, were Alawite.

Alawites follow a synchretic religion that is an offshoot of Shia Islam. Iran joined the Syrian civil war on the side of Assad’s government, supercharging sectarian tensions with Syria’s Sunni ...

The euphoria of Syria's new dawn has turned to violence. Alleged massacres of minority Alawites have sent a fresh wave of refugees into neighboring Lebanon. There was euphoria in December, when ...

Militias target Alawites Rights groups reported widespread revenge killings as militants from Syria’s Sunni majority targeted Alawites, regardless of whether they were involved in the insurgency.

Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the country's mix of sectarian and ethnic groups.