Those concerns intensified following the killing of hundreds of Alawites in March, in apparent retaliation for an earlier attack carried out by Assad loyalists. It was the deadliest sectarian flare-up ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

Reuters spoke with over 200 families of victims during visits to massacre sites and by phone, 40 security officials, fighters ...

Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, ...

A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...

LATAKIA, Syria -On January 29, Ahmed al-Sharaa and more than 12 other commanders from armed factions that joined forces to ...

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGESFor three days in March, Syrian Alawites were killed by the hundreds.We knew we needed to ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to protect minorities ...

The investigation, released by Reuters, uncovers the divide between the two Islamic sects in Syria, a polarization that ...

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...

LATAKIA, Syria -A Reuters investigation pieced together how the March 7-9 massacres of Syrian Alawites along the country’s Mediterranean coast unfolded, identifying a chain of command leading ...