Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last week, the United Nations’ human rights office said on Tuesday.

A Kurdish militia withdrew another batch of fighters from northern parts of Syria’s business capital Aleppo on Wednesday and ...

Syria (MNN) — Weeks of sectarian violence in Syria have triggered an influx of refugees into Lebanon. According to Amnesty ...

Last month hundreds, perhaps more, were killed in sectarian violence on the coast. The Kurds ruling Syria’s north-east do not recognise the new government. Yet the results of a rare public ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent ...

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Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen threw her 85-year-old father on the ground and shot him execution ...

Exclusive-How Syria's Sectarian Violence Spread to Capital, Terrorizing Alawites By Maya Gebeily, Timour Azhari and Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of ...

Amid fears of wider sectarian conflict across Syria, Sharaa's government took pains to emphasize in the wake of the violence that the killings were geographically limited. It named a fact-finding ...