For years Syrians have suffered strife and war, with the myriad religious and ethnic groups that call it home divided. With the fall of the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad —the source of much ...

Syria faced severe violence, with security forces accused of mass killings in Alawite-majority areas. Over 1,000 civilians ...

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Fierce clashes over the past two days between security forces under Syria’s new Islamist government and gunmen belonging to the country’s Alawite religious minority killed scores of people ...

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, have been killed in a shooting in Tartous province, home to a majority Alawite population ...

Recent sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal region deepened fears among the shrinking Christian minority about their future and prompting church leaders to urge national reconciliation.

As they spend their first Ramadan in their country in years, many Syrians who’ve recently returned from abroad to a homeland they were forced to flee have been celebrating the end of the Assad family’ ...

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. At the end of January, Ahmed al-Sharaa stepped up to a podium in the presidential palace ...

Syrian authorities have ended a military operation against loyalists of former President Bashar Al-Assad in the western province of Latakia. Days of fighting killed more than 1,500 people ...