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Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians ...
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 ...
Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...
Syria’s Factions Explained in a Map. ... Distinct ethnic and religious groups have called for self-determination for more than a century since their land was absorbed into the larger, ...
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 ...
There are an estimated 700,000 Druze in Syria, making them the country's third-largest religious group; there are also around 230,000 in Lebanon and 25,000 in Jordan. Israel and the Palestinian ...
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.
Under current conditions, the preferred option for Syria would be a secular democratic system with an embedded philosophy of religious moderation in social and political landscapes.
A visual guide to the latest developments after Syrian rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad 13 years after the start of the country's civil war.
HTS says it plans to reform Syria’s education system, tilting it toward the group’s narrow religious doctrine, which has alarmed both Muslims and non-Muslims alike and women’s rights activists.
Syria blamed the Islamic State group — entered with a rifle and began firing. As worshippers tackled him, he detonated an ...