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

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

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

In the worst outbreak of unrest since Syria’s transitional government took power, hundreds of people have been killed or ...

Syria's new government carried out helicopter strikes after fighters loyal to an elite Assad unit killed security personnel ...

Authorities have not issued a death toll, but war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human ... and a siege on military and security sites had been lifted. Meanwhile, clashes continued elsewhere.

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

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad escalated into clashes that a war ...

ICRC expresses deep concern over reports of escalating violence and civilian casualties in Syria's coastal region ...