Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

Recent violence in Syria has sparked fears of further instability as leaders call for lifting sanctions to ease economic woes ...

Syrian-Australians are mourning the loss of family members in their homeland after the reported killings of hundreds of civilians, mostly from the Alawite minority, in recent violence.

Syria's interim government said it has reached a landmark agreement to integrate Kurdish-led forces into state institutions ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

Syria's fragile transition from decades of Assad family brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a serious challenge to the new leadership led ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Haydar family huddled in their apartment while gunmen stalked their hometown of Baniyas, hunting for ...

Assad’s downfall would be a chance to come together and heal the wounds of the victims’ families. It was not to be. The ...

In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling ...

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a ...

Now in Lebanon, many of the displaced Alawis say they refuse to return to Syria for the time being, despite the situation ...

A fact-finding committee formed by Syria's new authorities to investigate a wave of deadly violence said on Tuesday the ...