The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

The BBC team found Dalaal seeking refuge alongside thousands of other people in a remote Russian airbase in the country's ...

Hamas said on Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies ...

Supporters of the overthrown Syrian president Bashar al-Assad carried out attacks on members of the defense and interior ...

Assad, himself an Alawite who sought to present himself as a protector of Syria's minorities, was ousted on December 8 in a lightning offensive led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and ...

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR ... as “the largest collective act of revenge in the coast and its mountains,” with the death toll expected to rise.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in addition to 745 civilians dead, the majority of whom were shot from ...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ... adding that thousands of people have fled to nearby mountains for safety. Residents of Baniyas, one of the towns worst hit by the ...