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

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria are sounding the alarm as more than 1,000 people have been killed since ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those ...

Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...

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

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

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

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

Foreign minister says Israel's warnings over new Islamist rulers were accurate after over 1,000 killed in Alawite enclave; ...