An Islamist faction controlling the country executed rival members of the Alawite sect and many Christians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Syria's fragile transition from decades of Assad family brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a serious challenge to the new leadership led ...

Entire families including women and children have been killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of recent a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the UN human rights office said. The wave of ...

In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling ...

The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous ...

The U.N. human rights office reports sectarian killings in Syria's coastal region by loyalists of Bashar al-Assad, targeting predominantly Alawite communities. The killings involved entire families, ...

This past weekend's sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

Syria has been engulfed in a civil war. Until three months ago, dictator Bashar al-Assad controlled the government, but he ...

In Syria's coastal region, sectarian violence has resulted in the death of entire families, including women and children. The ...

The phrase "Can a leopard change its spots?" (Jeremiah 13:23) best captures the global skepticism surrounding Ahmed al-Sharaa ...

The agreement was signed by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

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.