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, ...

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

The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...

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

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

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

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

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

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

The European Union and its partners have committed 5.8 billion euros to assist Syria and its neighboring countries. This ...

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