Still, Syrian Christians are worried, wondering if the new government will target them next. The revenge killings mark the ...

Alawites are a minority Shiite Muslim sect living predominantly in Sunni-majority Syria. The Assad family, members of the sect, ruled Syria for over half a century until Bashar was ousted in ...

Pune: Close on the heels of the brutal massacre of 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Islamic terror outfit aligned with ISIS, another round of ...

Assad is a member of the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that governed Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority for nearly five decades. The fighting in Syria’s Alawite heartland ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists ... The revenge killings that started Friday by Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal to the government against members ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar ... killings that started Friday by Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal to the government ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary ... including the stipulation that the head of state has to be a Muslim, and Islamic law is the main source of jurisprudence.

Syria is a Sunni-Muslim majority country, but has many religious and ethnic minorities including Alawites, Druse, Christians and Kurds. Many in Syria, however, remain skeptical of the country’s ...

A war monitoring group says the death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President ... started Friday by Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal to the ...