Sectarian violence in southern Syria is shattering hopes for a united country among the country's Druze minority.

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

A blood-soaked week illustrates the perils and challenges faced by the young government.

Global health systems research has long relied on state-centric frameworks, assigning governance roles primarily to national ...

A fact-finding committee presented findings on a wave of sectarian killings earlier this year. Human rights experts said the ...

A Syrian government investigation says more than 1,400 people died in sectarian violence along the coast earlier this year.

Nine days of armed clashes and serious abuses in Syria’s southern Sweida governorate have triggered a dire humanitarian ...

Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then Israel intervened, bombing Damascus.

Sharaa vowed to protect minority groups including the Druze and the Alawites, who formerly dominated power in Syria. But ...

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war.