Can Syria’s New Government Protect the Country’s Minorities?

Can Syria’s New Government Protect the Country’s Minorities?

Syria cannot hope to rebuild itself if it fails in preventing sectarian tensions from erupting into wide-scale violence.

A Fragile Lifeline: Aid Challenges and Syria’s Struggle to Rebuild

In the charred ruins of northern Aleppo, a young girl picks her way through what’s left of her childhood home—a collapsed stairwell, the remnants of a living room, a tangle of tiles. Her father, once a shopkeeper, now volunteers with one of the many local aid groups delivering food parcels to families like theirs. Scenes like this have played out across Syria, where 14 years of war, a devastating earthquake, and economic collapse have left milli…