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El-Sayed’s Democratic Senate Michigan win indicates US Jews are in danger - opinion

With another fresh US decision-maker defending terror, does America still live by the sentiment of: ‘ Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?’

|ByMICHA DANZIG
Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed arrives at a press conference in Detroit in August.
People wave Syrian flags as they gather at Umayyad Square in Damascus to watch a broadcast of Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa delivering a speech at the United Nations, in Syria, September 24, 2025.

Syria's Kurds demonstrate in multiple cities, government announces curfew

According to the Hasakah Media Directorate, groups attacked internal security headquarters in the cities of Hasakah and Qamishli, both of which contain a large number of Kurds.

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER, ARIELLA ROITMAN
An Al Jazeera Arabic journalist broadcasts, while Syrians examine the aftermath of powerful Israeli airstrikes that targeted missile and weapons depots at a former Syrian military base, which residents said was also used by Russia, on December 16, 2024.

Journalists disappear in Syria, Damascus suppresses accounts of sectarian attacks, report finds

At least nine journalists have been killed in Syria in the last five years, most since the fall of the Assad regime, and others have been detained or disappeared.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Terrorists from Palestinian Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigades stand guard on the street during an Eid al-Adha celebration in Gaza City, May 27, 2026; illustrative.

A globalizing terror war has blinded the West. Finally an international response from its victims

More recently, Batoul Suleiman Alloush was kidnapped from her university campus in Latakia, Syria. She also won't help from organizations in the West created to save people just like her.

|ByCHARLES JACOBS, WALID PHARES

More than a dozen killed in sectarian clashes near Syrian capital

The fighting marked the latest episode of deadly sectarian violence in Syria and increased fears of violence against minorities.

APRIL 29, 2025ByREUTERS
Druze gather to contact their relatives on the Syrian side of the border from the Israeli Golan Heights.

Syria's sectarian violence reached capital, terrorizing Alawites, residents say

Amid fears of wider sectarian conflict across Syria, Sharaa's government took pains to emphasize in the wake of the violence that the killings were geographically limited.

MARCH 27, 2025ByREUTERS
A Syrian Alawite family rides on a truck to return home, in Latakia, Syria March 13, 2025.

Minorities abandoned: Europe's double standard on Islamist oppression in the Middle East - opinion

Just weeks after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Europeans rushed to meet with the new master of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa. They remain in favor of a Palestinian state, and rush to condem Israel.

MARCH 19, 2025ByFREDDY EYTAN
European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen meet with foreign ministers of different Middle Eastern states, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to discuss developments in Syria, on Dec. 14, 2024.

Russia urges Syrians sheltering at Hmeimim air base to leave

Alawites seeking asylum headed towards the Russian air base earlier in March. Russia has distanced itself from the responsibility of protecting the civilians who turned to its base for safety.

MARCH 18, 2025ByRIZIK ALABI/THE MEDIA LINE
This aerial picture shows cars queing as civilians take refuge from violence at the Hmeimim Russian base in Syria's Latakia Mediterranean province on March 11, 2025.

Syria’s Christians fear for future after deadly sectarian violence

Recent sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal region deepened fears among the shrinking Christian minority about their future and prompting church leaders to urge national reconciliation.

MARCH 16, 2025ByRIZIK ALABI/THE MEDIA LINE
Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria, on March 7, 2025.

Syrians trickle home from sanctuary at Russian air base

Some Syrians trickle home from a Russian air base after sectarian killings, but many still fear for their safety.

MARCH 14, 2025ByREUTERS
Syrian Alawite woman Rana Bousheh, 34, leaves the Hmeimim air base with her family, to return to her village, in Latakia, Syria March 13, 2025.

Silence speaks volumes: Media coverage of Syrian Alawite killings must be criticized - editorial

This is exactly the kind of violence that should have international media splashing over, but it didn’t get the attention it deserves.

MARCH 12, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL
A man assists a those who fled the violence in western Syria, at the Nahr El Kabir River. March 11, 2025.

Alawite Syrians to 'Post': We need Israel's help from jihadist atrocities - exclusive

“Al-Sharaa’s forces are carrying out ethnic cleansing against the ‘infidels,’” a Syrian Alawite told the Jerusalem Post

MARCH 11, 2025ByOHAD MERLIN
A man receives a blanketed child from another crossing the Nahr al-Kabir river, forming the border between Syria's western Latakia province and northern Lebanon in the Hekr al-Daher area on March 11, 2025, as families from Syria's Alawite minority enter Lebanon to flee from sectarian violence