Newsweek has reached out to the IDF, the SDF, the Syrian Interim Government, U.S. Central Command and the U.S. State Department for comment. A map shows the religious and ethnic composition of ...

Internal displacement in Syria was used by the Assad regime to reshape the country's political and social landscape, a new ...

The winner of this would be all our Syrian brothers and sisters." A map shows the religious and ethnic composition of Syria as of March 2018, based on the world of Dr. M. Izady. A map shows the ...

Strengthening ties between the Kurds and Israel could counterbalance Turkish and Iranian ambitions, promote regional ...

An aftershock yesterday struck Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, near the epicenter of the initial quake, toppling ...

Syria is in the throes of its worst bloodshed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad three months ago. Since March 6th Sunni fighters have rampaged through heartlands of the Alawites, the ethnic group ...

But backing Israel is expensive and Mr Trump hates spending lavishly to defend America’s allies. On top of $18bn in military ...

As serious threats to Syria’s stability, these measures can intensify ethnic and religious divisions and increase ... They seek to redefine the political maps of Western Asia and exercise power over ...

Jon Alterman: You suggest several times in the article that he is arrayed against a number of ethnic militias ... Nicolas Pelham: If you look at the geopolitical map of Syria under Sharaa, it looks ...

As the below map shows, large swathes of the country ... which are strongholds of Syrian Alawites, a minority ethnic group that practices the Alawi branch of Islam and accounts for just 15 percent ...