Syria’s president has granted a three-month extension to an investigation into last month’s sectarian killings of Alawite ...

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee for their lives, and many worry the new government is not serious about ...

we’re going to crush every Alawite.” The exact circumstances surrounding the footage were not immediately clear. But it is one of more than 15 videos geolocated and verified by NBC News capturing the ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings ...

Assad's rule, the illegal drug captagon became Syria’s largest export. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The killings at the Khalils’ home, recounted through video and survivor testimonies, was one of many similar incidents that played out across Alawite communities in Syria’s coastal region earlier this ...

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

Moaz owes his survival to a remarkable misunderstanding. Six years into Syria's civil war, which started when President Bashar al-Assad cracked down on opposition protesters in 2011 during the Arab ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...

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

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...