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Iraq's Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry has dismissed a Sunni academic for inciting sectarian strife after he posted comments online in support of the recent mass killings of Alawites ...

After the killings targeting the Alawite community, Syrian society is struggling to extricate itself from the crimes of the ...

In the early phase of the Syrian civil war, Iran denied the presence of its forces on Syrian soil despite evidence to the ...

In recent days, a horrifying surge of violence and bloodshed has swept across Syria, leaving a civilian death toll of nearly 1,400. Most of the victims were part of the Alawite sect, former Syrian ...

Greek MEP Emmanouil Fragkos has urged the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the massacre of Alawites and Christians in Northwestern Syria as a crime against humanity. Citing Article 7 ...