The European Union (EU) has announced strong new sanctions against three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders. This ...

The European Union has lifted a wide range of sanctions on Syria, but slapped new ones on people it says participated on ...

AP The shocking death toll has skyrocketed from original estimates of about 200. Alawite people told the Associated Press that, in addition to the killings, many of their homes were looted and ...

with many people shot at close range. Part of the issue has been the involvement of other armed groups, who have sought to punish the Alawite sect for their previous support of the former regime.

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Videos geolocated by CNN showed dozens of dead bodies lying on the ground in the village of Al Mukhtareyah as people mourned. “These are the Alawite pigs,” a voice is heard saying before ...

Women kidnapped, children massacred and thousands from the Alawite minority escaping to the mountains for asylum from other atrocities reportedly carried out by Syrian interim president Ahmed al ...

Entire families are dead.” On March 8, another Alawite in western Syria sent a message: “There’s sporadic shooting. Armed people are here. If something happens to me, tell people what ...

Lebanese legislator Haidar Nasser, who holds one of the two seats allocated to the Alawite sect in parliament, said that people were fleeing from Syria for safety in Lebanon. He said he didn't ...

“People are scared. We feel like hostages,” said Hamed Ismail, a 37-year-old dentist who lives in Zahra, a predominantly Alawite neighbourhood of Homs, which is Syria’s third-largest ...

The Alawites are the second-largest religious group ... which would be tasked with communicating with the people of the coast and providing them with the support they needed to guarantee their ...

A UK-based independent monitoring group, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), said that at least 642 people have died in the violence, including scores of civilians who were killed after ...