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

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

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

By Maya Gebeily, Timour Azhari and Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian ...

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

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed Monday in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in coastal and central regions, after massacres earlier this ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent ...

Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa told Reuters he dispatched his forces the next day to halt the violence on the coast but that some fighters who flooded the region to crush the uprising did ...

Amid fears of wider sectarian conflict across Syria, Sharaa's government took pains to emphasize in the wake of the violence that the killings were geographically limited. It named a fact-finding ...

Amid fears of wider sectarian conflict across Syria, Sharaa's government took pains to emphasize in the wake of the violence that the killings were geographically limited. It named a fact-finding ...