Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

Three months after Islamist insurgents seized control of Syria, toppling the long-standing regime of Bashar al-Assad, ...

Syria witnessed the most intense and bloodiest clashes between the new Syrian government and Bashar al Assad loyalists since ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that a curfew has been imposed in the port cities of Latakia, ...

Gen. Ibrahim Huweija is also accused of overseeing killing of Lebanese politician Kamal Jumblatt - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Many thought they were designed to provide the Alawites with the underpinnings of an alternative state in case Syria broke up ...

Syrian security forces clashed with Bashar Al Assad loyalists for a second day in the country's coastal region on Friday, as ...

A Syria war monitor said Friday that security forces "executed" 69 members of the Alawite minority, which toppled president ...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or ...

A Syria war monitor said Friday that security forces killed 136 members of the Alawite minority, to which toppled president ...

More than 70 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Syria in fighting between government security forces and militants ...