Thousands have fled into Lebanon after tensions between Syria’s Alawite minority and forces backing the new government exploded last week.

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

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 ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

A few days ago, 48-year-old Johnny S., a Greek Orthodox Christian from Syria, found the courage to leave his home in Latakia, ...

It was a bloody weekend in Syria, where forces loyal to the government reportedly killed hundreds of civilians.

This raised doubts that the new leadership’s intent was not only to suppress armed dissent but also to punish the civilian population. The tensions along Syria’s coastal region and in the Latakia ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

"Assad and Al-Sharaa are both enemy regimes," says Sheikh Abdallah Al-Tamimi, a Syrian scholar and peace activist who has ...