The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor and an attendee said.

But Alawites fear a backlash against their sect, long associated with the Assads. The new authorities deny wrongdoing, saying they are after former Assad forces. The Syrian Observatory for Human ...

A regime built on terror, ruled by fear and sustained by foreign proxy forces crumbled in less than a fortnight. In the end, ...