Lebanon could be on the brink of a “massive” new refugee crisis if massacres of the Alawite minority in Syria continue, ...

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

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...

Thousands of Alawites sought refuge in Russia's Hmeimim military air base in western Syria on Tuesday, a war monitor said, ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

A Syrian war monitor says the death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists to ousted Syrian ...

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