Since the church bombing, some Christians have been afraid to meet for church. A group of Kurdish Christians who are ...

The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...

Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...

Distinct ethnic and religious groups have called for self-determination for more than a century since their land was absorbed into the larger, Sunni Muslim-led entity created after World War I.

The United States stands with Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families.

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

HTS says it plans to reform Syria’s education system, tilting it toward the group’s narrow religious doctrine, which has alarmed both Muslims and non-Muslims alike and women’s rights activists.

There are an estimated 700,000 Druze in Syria, making them the country's third-largest religious group; there are also around 230,000 in Lebanon and 25,000 in Jordan. Israel and the Palestinian ...

As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international envoy says Christians and other religious groups expect their rights and freedoms to be preserved ...

Under current conditions, the preferred option for Syria would be a secular democratic system with an embedded philosophy of religious moderation in social and political landscapes.