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

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday.

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the ousted Syrian president and revenge killings that followed rises to over 600.

Syria faced severe violence, with security forces accused of mass killings in Alawite-majority areas. Over 1,000 civilians ...

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

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.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights, one of those groups, said in a report released late on Tuesday that the violence in recent days “included extrajudicial killings, field executions ...

killing dozens of men in retaliation for attacks on government security forces by Assad loyalists, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Friday. SOHR said the violence ...

The scale of the violence in recent days was beginning to emerge: At least 624 people were killed, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, which has documented rights violations in Syria ...

Alawites fleeing the violence in Syria's coastal region have been crossing the Nahr el-Kabir river to reach safety in Lebanon Entire families, including women and children, were killed during the ...

In recent days, Syria has witnessed a dangerous escalation of violence, brutality, and killings, resulting in attacks on innocent civilians, including women and children,' the joint statement said.