BEIRUT: Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria's demographic map, erecting borders between the country's ethnic, religious, and political communities that will be hard to ...

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 ...

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.

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Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria's demographic map, erecting borders between the country's ethnic, religious, and political communities that will be hard to erase.

The other way to look at this is that it's a war first and a sectarian conflict second. Religious and ethnic antagonisms have been around for many, many generations in the Levant, including Syria.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria’s demographic map, ... Kurds about 15 percent, and all religious minorities about 20 percent. Advertisement.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria's demographic map, erecting borders between the country's ethnic, religious and political communities that will be hard ...

Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria's demographic map, erecting borders between the country's ethnic, religious, and political communities that will be hard to erase ...

Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria's demographic map, erecting borders between the country's ethnic, religious, and political communities that will be hard to erase. Abu ...