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

The Christian opponent of the al-Assad regime had not returned to Syria during the 14 years of civil war. When offered the ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

The US and Russia have jointly called for the United Nations Security Council to meet over the spiralling violence in Syria ... to 973 - including women and children. On top of this, 125 ...

"I heard children screaming, gunfire, and my father trying to calm down the children ... Just three months after Assad’s ...

But this strategy of detaining family members of rebels created a new problem for Syrian security forces: What to do with all the children they were detaining? He fled Syria’s war as a teenager. He ...

Landmines and unexploded ordnance in Syria have killed or injured at least 188 children since President Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow in December, the Save the Children charity said Thursday.

Syria’s new transitional government was sworn ... the new authorities in Damascus work to bring back stability to the war-torn country. The 23-member Cabinet, which is religiously and ethnically ...

The German government is temporarily closing its embassy in South Sudan. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that “after ...

LONDON -- The American embassy in Syria has warned all U.S. citizens to ... Damascus suspended operations in 2012 shortly after civil war erupted between former President Bashar Assad's regime ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...