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

Some of the Syrians who sought sanctuary at a Russian air base from sectarian killings are trickling home to devastated ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

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

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.

- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic ...