Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said troops fired back at gunmen who attacked them, before launching a drone ...

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.

The overall death toll since the clashes began has risen to 745, including 213 fighters from both sides, according to the Syrian Observatory ... field units engaged in combat to “strictly ...

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

The bloodshed in the coastal heartland of former ruler Bashar al-Assad saw more than 800 people killed in clashes between ...

Iraq's prime minister has described Abu Khadija as "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world". On Thursday, ...

Clashes between Syrian government forces and fighters loyal to the deposed dictator, Bashar al-Assad, have also led to hundreds more deaths on ... videos showed military vehicles moving through ...

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 ...

Damascus, Mar 9 (EFE) – The Syrian Observatory ... The United Kingdom-based war monitor, which has a network of partners on the ground, broke down the total death toll, reporting 830 civilians ...