Syria's interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...

A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

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

According to UK-based war monitor, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 1,130 people were killed in the clashes, ...

The sect has its roots in Shia Islam. The word Alawite means “follower of Ali,” the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ...

In the worst outbreak of unrest since Syria’s transitional government took power, hundreds of people have been killed or ...

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers killed more than 340 people, the head of a war monitor said.

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

A war monitor says that clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.