The two men in their sixties (their names have been changed for security reasons), the first a Sunni and the second an Alawite, spoke at length about the situation in Syria. Their conversation on ...

On 6 and 7 March, more than 800 members of the former ruling Alawite sect (a schismatic branch of Shia Islam) were, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, executed by HTS fighters and ...

A map shows the religious and ethnic composition of Syria as of March 2018 ... "We want the rule of law, and we want to be citizens, not Sunni or Shia or Alawi. We want to be citizens in a ...

Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months ... The attack came as the battle for Kobane continued in Syria, and US President Barack Obama and ...

Is a Shiite crescent extending from Beirut to Tehran emerging in the Middle East, as Sunni Arab leaders in Egypt ... which presumably includes Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, is being overblown.

For several days, Syria's Mediterranean coast has been gripped by extreme violence that ... The Alawites, estimated at 1.7 million, or around nine percent of the population, are an offshoot of Shia ...