DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday.

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee ...

Weeks after sectarian revenge killings, a religious minority reckons with what happened and the possibility of a united Syria ...

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Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community published on March 2025, paints a grim picture of Syria’s future.

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 ...

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

Victims and survivors of revenge attacks in Syria have told Sky News how families are being "slaughtered" amid a new wave of violence. After three months of relative peace, there have been attacks in ...

Alawites, an ethnoreligious sect of Islam, make up about 10 percent of Syria’s population. Assad belonged to this sect, and under his rule, Syria's majority Sunni Muslims faced many atrocities.

Trying to rebuild a war-ravaged country without humanitarian aid or sanction relief is like trying to get up with a boot on ...

The latest killings have included a campaign against Syria's Alawites, which was triggered by an attack on new government forces by Assad loyalists. Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay has ...