Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed ...

Clashes between Syrian forces and Assad loyalists in the dictator's former heartlands show the risks ahead, writes Middle ...

Some were forced to crawl besides the bloodied corpses of their neighbours as they were battered by branches. Others were ...

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 British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 52 people belonging to the Alawite minority were executed in the ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Syria’s Latakia region. For the Kurds, the bloodshed only ...

"In some villages, some killed civilians were dressed in military clothes ... an offshoot of Shia Islam, makes up 10% to 12% of the country's population, which is mostly Sunni Muslim.

Footage seen by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shows dozens of bodies in civilian clothing ... Shia Islam, make up around 10% of Syria's population, which is majority Sunni.

More than a decade had passed since Ahmed al-Sharaa squeezed into the narrow lift that went up to his parents’ 10th-floor ...