Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

Syria’s Alawite minority considers March 7 the start of a genocidal campaign. In the eyes of the Sunni majority, it marked ...

Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite ...

Amnesty’s Crisis Evidence Lab verified videos and photos, conducted weapons analysis, and analysed satellite imagery ...

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

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Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.

Gunmen in Tartus and Homs executed civilians - They also killed two Sunnis who were in the house of an Alawite family on a ...

Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community published on March 2025, paints a grim picture of Syria’s future.

Ahmed al-Sharaa hopes to convince the Western countries that his new government is inclusive in a bid to get the sanctions ...

The violence left more than 1,000 people, mostly Alawites, dead. Assad is an Alawite. Most of Syria’s insurgent groups now ...