In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling ...
The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ...
The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous ...
Over 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President ...
Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...
"Relative calm followed Assad's ousting, but violence has spiralled recently as forces linked to the new Islamist rulers ...
A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.
Alawites – some 10% of the population – were prominent in the Assad regime, and while many Alawites have surrendered their weapons since December, many others have not.
Recent clashes between anti-government groups and security forces in Syria have put the Alawite community in the spotlight.