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

After deadly clashes in southern Syria, Euronews spoke exclusively to religious leaders and activists from the community ...

Religious minorities in Syria face persecution under the new Islamist government, highlighting the critical importance of ...

For three days last week, Osama Bshnak Radwan and his family cowered in their townhouse as rockets, artillery and bullets pulverized their Syrian enclave. Then, five armed men in military fatigues ...

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.

Violence in Syria pitting the Islamist-led government against members of the Druze community has put a spotlight on the small ...

COMMENTARY: Everywhere, in the Middle East and other conflict zones around the world, there are attempts to play up and weaponize 'the Christian angle.' ...

Healing the Sunni–Shia rift requires the Muslim world to confront its moral fracture and stand decisively for justice in all ...

Israel comes to the aid of a desperate Syrian minority. And the world says nothing.

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

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

Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now ...