Just like in 2011, thousands of Syrians, in this case Alawites, wade through the river that serves as a border with Lebanon to escape the persecution by the allied forces of the new government. The ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

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

Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...

Caution is warranted as regime elements appear to participate in ethnic cleansing.

More than 1,300 dead in a few days - US condemns "Islamist terrorists & foreign jihadists who murder civilians" - Turkey ...

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 death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ...

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

Syria: Clashes between new security forces and Assad loyalists erupted on Thursday in the Alawite heartland, escalating into ...

The violence broke out on Thursday, three months after the insurgent-led government seized power, bringing an end to Assad’s ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria are sounding the alarm as more than 1,000 people have been killed since ...