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

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 ...

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

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

Moaz owes his survival to a remarkable misunderstanding. Six years into Syria's civil war, which started when President Bashar al-Assad cracked down on opposition protesters in 2011 during the Arab ...

A steady flow of Syrian refugees has started to settle in Russia's Perm region following the overthrow of President Bashar al ...

Assad's rule, the illegal drug captagon became Syria’s largest export. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

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

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Amnesty’s Crisis Evidence Lab verified videos and photos, conducted weapons analysis, and analysed satellite imagery ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...