Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

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

The Christian community feels isolated and fears becoming a victim of sectarian conflicts it has no involvement in," the ...

The bloodletting between Alawites and forces backing Syria’s new government surprised many. But tensions had been building since the ouster of President Assad.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated into it were largely responsible for the sectarian violence. By Euan Ward ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

Syria’s coastal region saw a wave of bloody sectarian violence from 6-10 March, sparked by armed clashes between remnants of former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and security forces affiliated wi ...

In a joint statement issued March 8, the patriarchs of Syria condemned acts that threaten civil peace and denounced the ...

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When forces loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad launched attacks along Syria’s coast last week, it ...

The scale of the violence in recent days was beginning ... That period left society with deep sectarian scars, fueled extremism and made Syria a magnate for foreign-born Islamist militants.