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

Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.

Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite ...

The Bauchi State Police Command on Friday, April 4, 2025, swiftly intervened to prevent a potentially violent confrontation ...

In March, sectarian tensions in Syria escalated as Alawite men were abducted and killed around Damascus. Witnesses report ...

In early March, masked men stormed homes in Damascus, targeting Alawite families with raids and detentions. Amid fears of ...

Last month hundreds, perhaps more, were killed in sectarian violence on the coast. The Kurds ruling Syria’s north-east do not recognise the new government. Yet the results of a rare public ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent ...

Among Alawites, few believe anyone will be held to account — especially with sectarian violence still ongoing. On March 31, the first day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan ...

Amid fears of wider sectarian conflict across Syria, Sharaa's government took pains to emphasize in the wake of the violence that the killings were geographically limited. A Syrian Alawite family ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen threw her 85-year-old father on the ground and shot him execution ...