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

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.

They kidnapped; they killed; they humiliated; they kicked people out of jobs," explained an Alawite writer living in coastal Syria. "One way or another, this was going to happen.""This" is the ...

Caution is warranted as regime elements appear to participate in ethnic cleansing.

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

Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has largely held ...

UN Human Rights spokesperson on Syria confirmed the deaths of 111 Syrian civilians in recent mass killings, in a Geneva press briefing on Tuesday. The spokesperson remarked that the true number is ...

Syria's new government is struggling to impose order in a country where some are settling scores. Sunni Arab fighters have killed members of the same religious sect as the deposed president.

Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon on Tuesday, among hundreds ...

An Islamist faction controlling the country executed rival members of the Alawite sect and many Christians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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 ...

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 ...