Dozens of Alawite women and girls disappear this year Some are abducted, families receive ransom demands Assad’s fall led to ...

Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria’s new government to ...

However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the ...

A committee tasked with electing Syria’s new parliament expects the vote will take place in August, a Kurdish member of the ...

In Latakia, a Syrian coastal city that has been the site of killings targeting the Alawite minority, four Sunni and Shiite ...

Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a ...

Israel was stunned by a surprise Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Since that day, Israel has delivered devastating blows to ...

Thus far, Moscow has done little to help Iran beyond rhetorical condemnations of Israel and the US and offers to mediate.

The head of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) expressed regret on Friday over the German government's decision to temporarily ...

A wake-up call is sounded in the latest reports on the extent of damage America meted out to Iran’s nuclear program ...