In the district of Baniyas, executions perpetrated against Alawites by Sunni factions caused around 100 deaths. A man in his ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...

Human rights activist Ribal al-Assad condemned European countries for lifting sanctions on Syria's new "terrorist" regime that is "killing civilians." ...

A humanitarian organization linked to the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Sunday that it ...

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

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling ...

Syria: Clashes between new security forces and Assad loyalists erupted on Thursday in the Alawite heartland, escalating into reported mass killings. Months after the ousting of former president ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol near Latakia by pro-Assad gunmen has ignited days of clashes, leading to over 1,000 deaths and deepening sectarian tensions. The Alawite community ...

But many were local Sunnis, unleashing hatreds pent-up over past atrocities blamed on Alawites loyal to Assad. Survivors say some of the attackers in Baniyas were Syrians from surrounding villages ...

Residents of the Syria's Alawite heartland have begun trickling back to their homes after fleeing sectarian killings in the ...