After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...

Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and ...

Alawite leaders said their community around Latakia and Tartus have been the target of attacks for weeks, ever since the ...

and Tartus, where at least 252 civilians were killed, according to SOHR. Both areas are home to Syria's Alawite community, the small Islamic sect to which the Assad family belongs, and have been a ...

Just like in 2011, thousands of Syrians, in this case Alawites, wade through the river that serves as a border with Lebanon to escape the persecution by the allied forces of the new government. The ...

TARTUS, Syria — The gunfire began at dawn Friday in the town of al-Haffa on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. At first, Wala, 29, a resident of the town, leaped off her bed to the corner of the ...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated ...

Israeli aircraft carried out airstrikes late Monday targeting the port city of Tartus in western Syria, according to Syrian state news agency SANA. The agency reported that the strikes did not ...