A rocket strike near a Shia Muslim shrine in Damascus killed a custodian of Zainab (AS) on Friday, activists and residents said, in an attack that could inflame sectarian tensions in Syria’s 28 month old conflict. Opposition activists and residents said shrapnel killed Anas Romani, the...

Most people in Damascus know the influence of "Shiites" in Shaghour and Al-Amin area, and it was aggravated in latest years by the sectarian schools, mosques and centers which educating the Shiite sect principles.  Some years ago, it was a taboo to speak about religious sections....

  Walid Junblatt, the Druze leader told the newspaper “Al-Anba’a” that he had information about the plans of   the regime of Bashar al-Assad to re-structure the area of the Jabal al-Arab by settling tens of thousands of strangers in the region and naturalizing them....

German prosecutors have charged a German-Syrian dual national with spying on exiled dissidents in Germany for Syria’s intelligence services, according to AP. The federal prosecutor’s office said Friday that it filed espionage charges at a Berlin court against the 37-year-old man, whom it...