Syria is a Sunni-majority country, but its Christian and Muslim minority sects account for between 15 ... heading to Saudi Arabia in likely signal to Iran Iraq arrests former security official ...

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

Roughly 15 percent of the population identifies with minority Muslim sects, such as Alawites ... s remarkable effort in Iraq that surged resources to assist Christians, Yazidis, and others after ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

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

“There was an Assad sect; it included Sunnis, Alawites, Christians and Druze ... many fear a repeat of the Iraq scenario, when U.S. officials’ mass removal of military personnel after the ...

Syria is not a nation-state but a tattered patchwork quilt of different sects with a blood-soaked history of feuding ... with the remaining one-fourth split between Shiites, Kurds, Christians, Druze, ...

Hence, on the one hand, they criticize the HTS-led government for its reconciliatory approach toward all the segments of Syrian society, including different sects and ethnicities, and for failing ...

The victims include Christians, Buddhists ... Algeria), and authoritarian regimes such as Iraq, Serbia and Burma. In response to such persecution, the cause of religious freedom, which until ...