Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

(Reuters) - Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, ...

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

They are thrilled at the death of the Alawites, the same tribe from which came the Assad family. Western governments ostensibly should have demanded fair trials for any Alawite who was involved in the ...

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman…her wings are cut and blamed for not knowing how to fly,” Simone de Beauvoir wrote in her celebrated work The Secon ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's interim government on Monday announced the end of a days-long military operation against ...

But despite authorities calling for an end to the sectarian incitement, the clashes turned deadly, and many civilians were ...

A Syrian security source said the pace of fighting had slowed around Latakia, Jabla and Baniyas, while forces searched ...