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

Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday called on the Syrian government to ensure accountability for sectarian ...

All told, despite sectarian divisions, Syrians are surprisingly upbeat. Except for Alawites, three-quarters of whom want ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials ...

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, have been killed in a shooting in Tartous province, home to a majority Alawite population ...

This episode weaves together voices from across the region, offering insight into the complex realities facing Middle Eastern ...

People gather for a mass demonstration in Qamishli, Syria, on March 11 to protest a recent wave of violence targeting Syria’s Alawite minority.

Standing beside the bodies of two men lying on the ground, blood pooling around one of them, in the Syrian village of Qabo Al-Awamiya in the Latakia countryside, a woman shouts in despair: “God ...

No one knows how many unarmed Alawites were killed in Syria between March 6 and 10, but University of Oklahoma Middle East studies professor Joshua Landis estimates more than 3000. While Alawites ...

“They didn’t even speak Arabic... they knew only: ‘Alawites, pigs, kill them’,” Ali said of the gunmen. A mobile phone shop owner who lived in an Alawite neighborhood of Homs, Ali had ...