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

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Summary executions and other atrocities have taken place in Syria’s coastal region following insurgent attacks on Syrian ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

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

Syria’s central government has signed a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast. It’s a major breakthrough for Interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa. It comes as the ...

Syria said that it had ended a government military operation in response to insurgent attacks that resulted in a spiral of ...

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

Hundreds of people were killed and residents of Syria’s coastal governorates are scared to leave home. The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and ...

Syria's top Christian leaders have condemned the killing and wounding of hundreds of Alawites, many of them civilians, by security forces and gunmen linked to the country's new Islamist rulers.