Assaults on the country's Alawite minority continue despite promises that Syria's new leaders will carve out a future that ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime ... forces loyal to the new Syrian regime quickly ...

The bloodletting between Alawites and forces backing Syria’s new government surprised many. But tensions had been building ...

The UN human rights office has verified the killing of 111 civilians in the coastal region, but says the actual figure is far ...

A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.

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 ...

As the civil war intensified, militant groups emerged across the country and treated Alawites as affiliates of Assad and his key military ... death figures during attacks in Syria over the years ...

Syria's state news agency SANA had previously given a death toll of two in the Daraa strike. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Israel targeted a military site once belonging to ...

A Syrian security source said the pace of fighting had slowed around Latakia, Jabla and Baniyas, while forces searched ...

An ambush on a Syrian security ... As the civil war intensified, militant groups emerged across the country and treated Alawites as affiliates of Assad and his key military allies, Russia and ...