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

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed ...

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

The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials ...

Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

When Syria's new leaders shut 60 Damascus bars, drinkers protested, and the government reversed itself. It's an example of ...

Photographs of the dead lined the walls as a series of speakers took to a microphone to tell stories – interspersed with ...

international organizations and Syrian public institutions" in the Syrian capital Damascus. "Methods of attack could include, but are not limited to, individual attackers, armed gunmen ...

The accounts by the dozen witnesses in Damascus, however, indicate that sectarian violence unfolded in the southern edges of Syria's capital, a few kilometres from the presidential palace.

The U.S. State Department said in a travel warning that possible attacks could target embassies, international organizations and Syrian public institutions in the capital, Damascus. The Islamic ...