A religious minority in Syria, the Alawite sect makes up 12% of the country's population, whose majority belongs to the Sunni ...

The reported fighting in the capital Damascus and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

On March 6, clashes broke out between the security forces loyal to the new Syrian authorities and the armed groups supporting former Syrian President Bashar Assad in the provinces of Latakia, Tartus, ...

Local television reports that the country's president has ordered the creation of an independent commission to investigate ...

As Syria witnesses “one of the biggest massacres” since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, its new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has vowed ...

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

The violence has raised the specter of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria and stoked panic in the coastal provinces of ...

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

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

Syria's leader on Sunday vowed accountability and an investigation after the killing of Alawite civilians triggered an ...