The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...
Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...
Following the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad last month, US-backed Kurdish forces have been under mounting ...
The central alley souk in Arbin, a neighborhood in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, is bustling with people. Among the ...
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international ...
Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...
Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurds in Syria add “beauty and brilliance” to the country and were mistreated by the previous ...
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Syria’s Future Depends On The Kurds
The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.