Religious divisions were stark. Sunni Muslims, forming a slim majority, clashed with Shia Muslims and smaller sects like the Alawites and Druze. Among Christians, who comprised a quarter of the ...

"Not just minorities - Christians, Alawites, Druze - but also quite a lot of Sunni Muslims in places like Damascus and Aleppo, where you have a fairly large secular, cosmopolitan population that's ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is in the final stages of drafting recruitment reforms to attract 18- to 25-year-olds who are currently exempt from mobilization as it looks for ways to bolster its ...

“Not just minorities – Christians, Alawites, Druze – but also quite a lot of Sunni Muslims in places like Damascus and Aleppo, where you have a fairly large secular, cosmopolitan population ...

TUNIS, January 27. /TASS/. Five people, including one child, were killed after militants attacked an Alawite village near the city of Hama in central Syria, the Al Watan newspaper reported.

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Security forces of the new Syrian government secure the area around a group of Alawite demonstrators in Damascus' Mazzeh district on Dec. 25, 2024. (Omar Sanadiki / Associated Press) ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked up a wobbly set of stairs made of cinderblocks and rubble. He is rebuilding his destroyed family house in the Qaboun neighborhood ...