Christians and other religious minorities in Syria fear the Middle Eastern nation has traded one oppressor for another since ...

Syria faced severe violence, with security forces accused of mass killings in Alawite-majority areas. Over 1,000 civilians ...

While most of the victims were Alawites ... “That’s also why a majority of us fear the Islamization of Syria. For instance, armed men sometimes ask women to wear veils or to sit separately ...

While most Christians have remained neutral since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011 ... the need to preserve civil peace, many fear that they will once again become victims of conflicts ...

marking the most widespread violence since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The fighting and reprisal killings were centered in Syria’s coastal region of Latakia, a heartland ...

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, have been killed in a shooting in Tartous province, home to a majority Alawite population ...

The violence left more than 1,000 people, mostly Alawites, dead. Assad is an Alawite. Most of Syria’s insurgent groups now running the country are Sunnis, but the presence of members of minority ...

But before that took place, Omira was stopped on the street one day by members of the feared intelligence service ... tech conference in Damascus, Syria. Most were Syrian and Syrian-American.