Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as ...

Syria’s Alawite minority consider March 7 the start of a genocidal campaign. In the eyes of the Sunni majority, it marked ...

DAMASCUS – Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes ...

By Maya Gebeily, Timour Azhari and Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian ...

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

As videos of massacres against Alawites in Syria go viral on social media, I find myself haunted by one image—a mother sitting silently beside her murdered sons, her face frozen in shock as the ...

Together, they counted the dead. Read more Subscribers only Syria's new authorities face explosive situation after bloody clashes in Alawite stronghold Each building had its own tragedy.

Some of the victims were his Alawite friends. Oweis, who works for an international nonprofit focused on interfaith dialogue, is a member of the Syrian Greek Orthodox community and lived in ...

It had been five days since clashes between Alawites and Syrian government forces had devolved into a sectarian slaughter, turning the villages nestled in the emerald lushness of Tartus province into ...

Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria March ...

Thousands of Alawites sought refuge in Russia's Hmeimim military air base in western Syria on Tuesday, a war monitor said, after sectarian mass killings swept the region. "Thousands of Alawite ...