Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

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

Syria's interim leader has appealed for unity, as violence and revenge killings continued in areas loyal to ousted former ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

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 ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

Communications Directorate says images circulating were of Israeli soldiers and taken in Lebanon and not Syria ...

Syrian-Australians are mourning the loss of family members in their homeland after the reported killings of hundreds of civilians, mostly from the Alawite minority, in recent violence.

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers killed more than 340 people, the head of a war monitor said.

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

BEIRUT — The Haydar family huddled in their apartment while gunmen stalked their hometown of Baniyas, hunting for members of Syria’s minority Alawite sect like them. After 24 terrifying hours ...