The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...

The days-long conflict has been among Syria's deadliest in a decade. Nearly 1,000 civilians have been killed, including women ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday.

‘This’ is the outbreak of violence in Syria that killed 745 civilians in 30 ‘massacres’ along Syria’s Alawite-majority ...

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, ...

At least 973 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in Syria in recent days as forces of the new ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

Latest reports indicate that 250 armed supporters of the country's former leader have been killed since the situation ...

They are thrilled at the death of the Alawites, the same tribe from which came the Assad family. Western governments ostensibly should have demanded fair trials for any Alawite who was involved in the ...