Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.

A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

Syria's president has granted a three-month extension to an investigation into last month's sectarian killings of Alawite ...

Syria’s Interim President Extends Deadline for Report on Civilian Killings. The recent extension of the deadline for a fact-finding committee investigating the killings of hundr ...

So far, with the Druze, those efforts have been unsuccessful. The lack of agreement, along with rising sectarian violence, is ...

Yet a new poll conducted for The Economist in the days before and after the violence in March suggests that Syrians remain ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s presidency announced on Friday that it would extend a probe into the killings of Alawite civilians in coastal areas that left hundreds dead after clashes between ...

The sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in Syria’s modern history, including the 14 years of civil war from which the country is now emerging. The violence brought fear ...