Thousands have fled into Lebanon after tensions between Syria’s Alawite minority and forces backing the new government exploded last week.

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government ...

Just like in 2011, thousands of Syrians, in this case Alawites, wade through the river that serves as a border with Lebanon to escape the persecution by the allied forces of the new government. The ...

Syrian families who fled the clashes in Syria hold their luggages as they cross a river marking the border between Syria and northern Lebanon near the village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province, ...

Now in Lebanon, many of the displaced Alawis say they refuse to return to Syria for the time being, despite the situation ...

The UN human rights office has verified the killing of 111 civilians in the coastal region, but says the actual figure is far ...

Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon, among hundreds of people ...

Syria's fragile transition from decades of Assad family brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a serious challenge to the new leadership led ...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of the oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the ...