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 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 ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect 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.

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

But this month’s violence in Syria’s coastal region has stoked fears among some. The bloodshed began after reports of attacks by Assad loyalists on government security forces. Human rights and ...

Weeks after sectarian revenge killings, a religious minority reckons with what happened and the possibility of a united 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 ...

But the spasm of violence that erupted this month in northwestern Syria, which killed hundreds of civilians, made it clear just how distant that goal remains. It displayed instead the government ...

Entire families, including women and children, were killed during the recent violence in Syria's coastal region, the UN human rights office says. A spokesman told reporters that the UN had so far ...