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

Rihab Kamel and her family hid terrified in their bathroom in the city of Baniyas as armed men stormed the neighbourhood, ...

Syrian security forces deployed heavily in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on Saturday, after a war monitor ...

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

A Syrian war monitor said Friday that security forces "executed" 69 members of the Alawite minority, a day after deadly ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol near Latakia by pro-Assad gunmen has ignited days of clashes, leading to over 1,000 ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...

Syria’s interim government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast ...

Plenty of Syrians are disappointed by the lack of justice for the former regime. Deals have been cut with commanders ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria are sounding the alarm as more than 1,000 people have been killed since ...