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Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

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The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria fear the Middle Eastern nation has traded one oppressor for another since ...

Rights groups, such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), have reported that recent killings on the coast were ...