Minorities

Kurdish Official Urges Damascus to 'Review' Minorities Approach

A Kurdish official on Thursday urged Syria's new authorities to rethink their approach to the country's minorities following deadly clashes with Druze fighters in the south. Syrian government forces withdrew from the Sweida province overnight on Wednesday following deadly clashes with Druze militants. Since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in ...

Archbishop Jacques Mourad: Rebuilding a New Syria

  In an interview with This is Beirut, the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Homs and former monk of Mar Moussa, Jacques Mourad, stressed the importance of Syrian unity. “Today is an opportunity to free ourselves from all the horrible theories we've lived with for fifty years; the idea of ghettos and minorities, or that Muslims will kill us and ...

Syria Islamist Rebel Commander Says no Place for 'Sectarianism'

Syrian rebel commander Hassan Abdel Ghani sought to reassure religious minorities on Saturday, after Islamist-led fighters snatched key cities and swathes of territory from government control. His comments come as rebels sought to advance into Syria's third city of Homs, after their alliance led by the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ...