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

Messages from survivors of the sectarian violence in which over 1,500 civilians were killed describe methodical carnage, ...

Sharaa appealed for civil peace on Sunday, following the deaths of hundreds in deadly clashes. Le Monde contacted several ...

The Syrian government must ensure that the perpetrators of a wave of mass killings targeting Alawite civilians in coastal ...

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

Mr Sharaa's forces and rival groups have killed at least 1,200 civilians, most of them Alawites, in Latakia, Tatous, Hama and Homs provinces, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The toll ...

People gather for a mass demonstration in Qamishli, Syria, on March 11 to protest a recent wave of violence targeting Syria’s Alawite minority.

“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.