The violence in Syria in recent days has shown how difficult it will be to unite a fractured country with deeply held ...

Residents describe to MEE the mass killings they witnessed during the clashes between Syrian forces and Assad loyalists ...

Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images “From the very ... The new government has called on all members of Mr. al-Assad’s security forces to relinquish their ties to the former government and surrender ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, ...

Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of forging their own path to survival among the country’s powerhouses. They are now ...

Now in Lebanon, many of the displaced Alawis say they refuse to return to Syria for the time being, despite the situation ...

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

Hafez al-Assad. - 'Everyone's afraid' - Ali, a farmer living in Jableh, told AFP he saw "urban battles and street fighting". "All night, we heard the sounds of gunfire and explosions," he added.

Alawites made up a large part of Assad's support base for ... in the coastal Syrian village of Al-Janoudiya on Saturday. (Omar Albam/The Associated Press) Ali Sheha, 57, a resident of Baniyas ...

Hafez al-Assad. Ali, a farmer living in Jableh, told AFP he saw “urban battles and street fighting”. “All night, we heard the sounds of gunfire and explosions,” he added. “Everyone’s ...

Peta Credlin has called out media and human rights organisations for failing to show concern for the massacre of Christians ...