Weeks after sectarian revenge killings, a religious minority reckons with what happened and the possibility of a united Syria ...

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.

Messages from survivors of the sectarian violence in which over 1,500 civilians were killed describe methodical carnage, decry the duplicity of Syria's new leadership ...

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

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

The Syrian government on Saturday said it is ready to cooperate with human rights organizations, but that Amnesty ...

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

Women kidnapped, children massacred and thousands from the Alawite minority escaping to the mountains for asylum from other atrocities reportedly carried out by Syrian interim president Ahmed al ...

“People are scared. We feel like hostages,” said Hamed Ismail, a 37-year-old dentist who lives in Zahra, a predominantly Alawite neighbourhood of Homs, which is Syria’s third-largest ...

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, have been killed in a shooting in Tartous province, home to a majority Alawite population ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.