Lebanon could be on the brink of a “massive” new refugee crisis if massacres of the Alawite minority in Syria continue, ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

In the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, revellers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government in Damascus and local Kurdish-led authorities, ...

After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...

Mr Sharaa's forces and rival groups have killed at least 1,200 civilians, most of them Alawites, in Latakia, Tatous, Hama and Homs provinces, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The toll ...

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 ...

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

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

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