But despite authorities calling for an end to the sectarian incitement, the clashes turned deadly, and many civilians were ...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that more than 1,000 people had been killed in two days ...

Syria's leader vowed on Sunday (March 9) to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed ...

The violence has raised the specter of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria and stoked panic in the coastal provinces of ...

A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite ...

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

The United States and European Union came to polar opposite conclusions over the recent massacres of Alawites, Christians, ...

Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries have called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions and ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad has escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Syria's leader on Sunday vowed accountability and an investigation after the killing of Alawite civilians triggered an ...