The latest round of deadly sectarian violence in Syria started off small. Last Sunday, a Bedouin tribe reportedly robbed and attacked a Druze man at a checkpoint in southern Syria, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

A deadly suicide bombing at a Damascus church on Sunday June 22 has reignited urgent calls for global recognition of the ongoing persecution of Syria’s religious minorities.

Syria's Christian population has been decimated from 1.5 million to under 300,000 since 2011. Yet the global silence reveals devastating double standards.

In Syria, the size of the Christian population has fallen by two-thirds since the country’s civil war began in 2011, when Christians still numbered more than 2 million.

For many Jews, the images of Druze men having their mustaches forcibly shaved conjure up memories of the Holocaust.

Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the country's mix of sectarian and ethnic groups. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.

In Aleppo, Syria, which was home to Syria’s largest Christian population, numbers fell from 150,000 to 35,000 by the spring of 2017, which is a drop of more than 75 percent.

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday labelled the current situation in Sweida and south western Syria as "very serious", while also assuring that the Israeli

Syrian nuns kidnapped by Islamist rebels were released overnight. Extremist groups in northern Syria have forced Christians to pay a fee for being non-Muslim.

The UK is to start processing Syrian asylum claims again, more than seven months after decisions were paused following the fall of the Assad regime. Asylum minister Dame Angela Eagle said the Home Office had "worked to lift the pause as soon as there was sufficient information to make accurate and well-evidenced determinations".

“More than 365 million Christians in the world, that is one in seven, face high levels of persecution for their faith today. “According to Open Doors, globally there were 13 Christians killed ...