Now in Lebanon, many of the displaced Alawis say ... create a system that includes Syria’s mosaic of religious and ethnic groups, Alawis said they continued to face varying levels of sectarian ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...

The Palestinian militant group said in a statement Friday it has accepted a new proposal by mediators of the Israel-Hamas ...

A United Nations-backed group of human rights experts accused Israel of “disproportionate violence against women and children ...

The mostly ethnic Kurdish revelers in the northeastern ... broke out following clashes between government-linked forces and groups associated with deposed President Bashar Assad.

Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has largely held ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

(Relevance: Understanding ethnic groups in the news is important for the UPSC exam as ... The historically rich region of Levant — encompassing Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, with ...

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