DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed ...

At least nine people in southwestern Syria were killed in Israeli strikes, Syrian state media has reported, while Israel ...

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

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

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

The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his ...

BEIRUT — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials said.

But the ruthless domination of Syria by Alawites for the next 58 years caused the country's majority Sunni Muslim population in 2011 to rebel, leading to a full-scale civil war that ended in December ...

This episode weaves together voices from across the region, offering insight into the complex realities facing Middle Eastern ...

More than 30 members of one family spoke to Al-Monitor after fleeing into northern Lebanon from Syria amid a spasm of ...

Alawites were targeted in door-to-door massacres after a clash between fighters from Syria’s old regime and new government ...

That unleashed a spree of revenge killings there that left hundreds of Alawites dead. Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa told Reuters he dispatched his forces the next day to halt the ...