Witnesses said the attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran toward the crowd shouting Islamic slogans.

All told, despite sectarian divisions, Syrians are surprisingly upbeat. Except for Alawites, three-quarters of whom want ...

Three people have been injured after a man armed with an axe attacked the annual parade by Assyrian Christians in the Iraqi ...

IRBIL, Syria (AP) — The annual parade by Assyrian Christians in the Iraqi city of Dohuk to mark their new year was marred Tuesday when an axe-wielding man attacked the procession and wounded three ...

The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

without discrimination based on race, religion, gender or lineage.” But many Kurds were unhappy that the text does not explicitly recognize Kurdish rights. Mizgeen Tahir, a well-known Kurdish singer ...

without discrimination based on race, religion, gender or lineage.” But many Kurds were unhappy that the text does not ...

In Istanbul on 27 February, Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, commonly known as the PKK, called on the organisation to dissolve itself and its militants to abandon ...

Monitoring groups said hundreds of civilians were killed in the violence in Syria’s coastal communities, primarily targeting members of the Alawite religious ... to the banned Kurdistan Workers ...

Syria's new authorities struck a deal to integrate the Kurdish-led administration into state institutions, as they push to extend their authority across the country while offering recognition for ...

regardless of their religious or ethnic backgrounds," while proclaiming "the Kurdish community is an integral part of the Syrian state, and the Syrian state guarantees its right to citizenship and ...