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

The cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6. Dozens of messages posted by various armed factions on social media, ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

The bloodletting between Alawites and forces backing Syria’s new government surprised many. But tensions had been building since the ouster of President Assad.

In the Al-Qusour district, residents are trying to go back to their lives after the deadly attacks carried out by various ...

The recent violence in Syria's coastal region represents a significant threat to the country's political transition. The post ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria fear the Middle Eastern nation has traded one oppressor for another since ...

Alawites are a minority Shiite Muslim sect living predominantly in Sunni-majority Syria. The Assad family, members of the ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam, and it once formed the core constituency of Assad's government in the ...

Syria's foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned Israeli strikes on the southwestern city of Daraa, which it said killed and ...

Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and ...