Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

Nairi Karapetyan, a correspondent for the Armenian Gandzasar newspaper in Latakia, also confirmed that the situation remains ...

The UN's Volker Turk has condemned days of violence between security forces and fighters loyal to fallen dictator Bashar ...

Violence erupted in Syria on Thursday between government security forces and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad ...

Syrian security forces in eastern Deir ez-Zor province arrested four former regime leaders suspected of plotting attacks on ...

Syria is witnessing its worset days. Since last week, parts of southern Syria have been theater to unrest that has now ...

At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...

We hear shooting all around us – far away and close.” In what appears to be some of the worst violence seen in Syria since ...

Syria's new leader has vowed accountability and an investigation after reports of mass killings of Alawite civilians ...

DAMASCUS — The death toll from continuing clashes in Syria's coastal region has surged to 1,018, including 745 civilians, the ...

A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite ...

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...