A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller attacks since the ...

Syria’s president has granted a three-month extension to an investigation into last month’s sectarian killings of Alawite ...

The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his promise to lead a more unified country.

A steady flow of Syrian refugees has started to settle in Russia's Perm region following the overthrow of President Bashar al ...

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

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

The killings at the Khalils’ home, recounted through video and survivor testimonies, was one of many similar incidents that played out across Alawite communities in Syria’s coastal region earlier this ...

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee for their lives, and many worry the new government is not serious about ...

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

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad ...