Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad.

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

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

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

The sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in Syria’s modern history, including the 14 years of civil ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in coastal and central ... Official media did not ...

Syria vows to investigate sectarian massacres after Amnesty warns attacks on Alawites may amount to war crimes ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in ... did not immediately report on either of the ...