Recent violence in Syria has sparked fears of further instability as leaders call for lifting sanctions to ease economic woes ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

We were searching for a site in the northern Bekaa valley recently bombed by Israel. Hadi knew near which village it was ...

"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.