Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...

- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic ...

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

Israel’s expansionist ambitions continue to drive the erasure of Palestine, raising the critical question: Can the US and ...

Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...

A new chapter in Syria’s long and bloody history is unfolding ... governance along geographic and ethnic lines to ensure greater autonomy for minority groups. But Al-Sharaa’s government ...

Throughout their history, the Alawites have been persecuted ... In March 2011, demonstrations against Assad's rule swept across Syria, demanding greater freedoms and end to corruption.

As Syria plunged into chaos after Assad’s fall ... and religious minorities wary of the new leadership’s jihadist history – Netanyahu’s government saw an opportunity to advance his ...