The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers killed more than 340 people, the head of a war monitor said.

The United States and European Union came to polar opposite conclusions over the recent massacres of Alawites, Christians, ...

Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the widespread killings in Jableh, Baniyas and surrounding ...

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.

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

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

The whole world is silent, we only heard a voice from the State of Israel' • 'Help us, and if you reach the Syrian coast, ...

Rihab Kamel and her family hid terrified in their bathroom in the city of Baniyas as armed men stormed the neighbourhood, ...

They are carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing, mainly of the Alawite minority, and all on a sectarian and religious basis,” the journalist said.