“In the last few days untold numbers of Christians and minority groups have been massacred by Syrian security forces. The violence is reported to have begun as retaliation against Alawites loyal to ...

Between March 7 and 9, the towns of al-Sanobar and Huraysun were taken over by Islamist factions allied with the new Syrian ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday that he had proposed at a European Union meeting for sanctions to be ...

The latest killings have included a campaign against Syria's Alawites, which was triggered by an attack on new government ...

Massacres, often ignored or forgotten by the outside world but not by their victims, are one of the great driving forces of ...

A CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, ...

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

The world stands witness to the horrifying and systematic genocide of Alawites and Christians in Syria, a tragedy driven by extremist ideology and a gullible international community that has turned a ...

Killing Christians because they are Christians is nothing new. Sometimes the persecution is intense, sometimes not as much.

We like the Irish,” is a reassuring thing to hear when you’re travelling in the back of a Hiace full of Islamist fighters in the middle of the night and feeling a bit jumpy. We’d met a young militant, ...

Human rights activist Ribal al-Assad condemned European countries for lifting sanctions on Syria's new "terrorist" regime ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that Ankara is closely monitoring an agreement between the Syrian ...