BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials ...

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The Druze are Arabs who practise a religion widely considered as an offshoot of Islam. There are minority Druze communities in Israel, Syria and Lebanon. Syria's Islamist-led government on Monday ...

JERUSALEM—The former al Qaeda terrorist and current Interim President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, failed to stop a massacre of over 1,000 Syrians, including Christians, that unfolded last ...

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“It’s open season on them.” Some reports characterized Syria’s conflict as ethnic in nature, but Shea believes religion is a primary driver. She tracks Islamist regimes and has observed ...

Interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, a former HTS leader, has promised that the country will transition to a system that includes Syria's mosaic of religious and ethnic groups under fair elections ...

and who has already begun to persecute and kill and arrest religious minorities like Christians in Syria.” In a statement over the weekend, Mr. al-Sharaa blamed “remnants of the other regime ...