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, ...

Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

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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.

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

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

All told, despite sectarian divisions, Syrians are surprisingly upbeat. Except for Alawites, three-quarters of whom want ...

Global human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Thursday censured the “mass killings” recorded in Syria’s ...

Weeks after sectarian revenge killings, a religious minority reckons with what happened and the possibility of a united Syria ...

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 ...

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