France's president said on Wednesday he would urge the EU to end sanctions on Syria when they come up for renewal in June and ...

PARIS (AP) — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Wednesday that his country is holding indirect talks with Israel to ...

Israel has accustomed us to fishing in troubled waters. The Zionist state has long been interested in sowing discord and ...

Syria cannot hope to rebuild itself if it fails in preventing sectarian tensions from erupting into wide-scale violence.

One man accused of killing an Alawite during the sectarian violence in March tells the BBC that armed civilians were advised ...

Armed individuals evicted people without a court order, prevented them from taking their belongings, and then moved in.

What we found was evidence of a massacre — and a broad failure by the new, rebel-led government to protect Alawites, the group that dominated Syria’s elite circles during the Assad family’s ...

A sloth has had pioneering dental surgery to cure toothache. Rico is believed to be the first sloth to undergo such an operation, which was carried out by a team at Chester Zoo working alongside ...

These totals can be further broken down into minor heterodox sects, including Ismailis, Alawites, and Druze. One of the smallest sects is the Bektashis, an esoteric Sufi order generally considered ...

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