The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

At least 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in Syria's coastal ...

A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials said. The coastal region is in the heartland of the Alawite ...