Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite ...

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

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

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated into it were largely responsible for the sectarian violence. By Euan Ward ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last week, the United Nations’ human rights office said on Tuesday.

Shara, Syria’s new leader, introduced a caretaker government that would supervise the country’s transition from five decades of dictatorial rule. He gave some cabinet positions to figures outside his ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 11 (UPI) --Syria's fragile transition from decades ... The new wave of sectarian violence broke out Thursday when pro-Assad Alawite gunmen ambushed security forces of ...

The U.S. has sent more forces to Syria, tamping down on the immediate threat, but experts warn that the extremist group could ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent ...

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

Yet a new poll conducted for The Economist in the days before and after the violence in March suggests that Syrians remain ...