Oweis said Syrian forces looted hundreds of Christian homes during the assault on Alawite communities between the coastal towns of Tartus and Latakia. Jihadis stormed the home of Oweis’s friend and ...
Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...
After Syria's longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...
Following the recent attacks carried out against civilians in the Alawite-majority region in Syria’s coastal region, many ...
Over 1,200 dead as ‘mass killing’ of Alawites continues despite Syrian leader’s call for peace - Sharaa's government urged to ...
The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous ...
Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...
Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...
The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...
Assad is a member of the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that governed Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority for nearly five decades. The fighting in Syria’s Alawite heartland ...
The massacres were committed mainly on 7 and 8 March in areas inhabited by Christians and members of the Alawite minority, to ...