A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are ...

Syria’s president has granted a three-month extension to an investigation into last month’s sectarian killings of Alawite ...

The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his promise to lead a more unified country.

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

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee for their lives, and many worry the new government is not serious about ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings ...

The killings at the Khalils’ home, recounted through video and survivor testimonies, was one of many similar incidents that played out across Alawite communities in Syria’s coastal region earlier this ...

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BEIRUT (AP) — The sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in Syria’s modern history, including the 14 years of civil war from which the country is now emerging. BEIRUT (AP ...