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 cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6. Dozens of messages posted by various armed factions on social media, ...

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, ...

Video clips surfaced showing Jableh city as a deserted wasteland, just as a foreign jihadist had boasted on social media ...

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least 14 civilians and injured at least 33 over the past day, regional authorities ...

Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has ...