A religious minority in Syria, the Alawite sect makes up 12% of the country's population, whose majority belongs to the Sunni ...

The reported fighting in the capital Damascus and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

On March 6, clashes broke out between the security forces loyal to the new Syrian authorities and the armed groups supporting former Syrian President Bashar Assad in the provinces of Latakia, Tartus, ...

Local television reports that the country's president has ordered the creation of an independent commission to investigate ...

The violence has raised the specter of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria and stoked panic in the coastal provinces of ...

Syria's new leader has vowed accountability and an investigation after reports of mass killings of Alawite civilians ...

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite ...

The measure was explained by security consideration amid the continuing operations against armed supporters of former ...