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

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

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 ...

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

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

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 ...

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

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s presidency announced on Friday that it would extend a probe into the killings of Alawite civilians in coastal areas that left hundreds dead after clashes between government ...

The latest killings have included a campaign against Syria's Alawites, which was triggered by an attack on new government forces by Assad loyalists. Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay has ...

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 ...