More than 1000 people, including women and children, have been killed in Syria as its new Islamist rulers clash with ...

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

"Distinguishing between civilians and disarmed members of the Assad regime has proven particularly challenging, as many of ...

Alawites had been a core part of Assad’s support base for decades ... with women and children among the dead. “The vast ...

three months after insurgents took authority after removing Assad from power. Witnesses revealed how women were reportedly told to 'walk naked' before being shot dead amid horrifying scenes in Syria.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in addition to 745 civilians dead, the majority of whom were shot from ...

Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country's civil war began, ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of deadly clashes between Syrian security forces, supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad and subsequent revenge killings, a monitoring ...

Within about six days, hundreds of Alawite civilians lay dead, according to Reuters reporting and several monitoring groups. Just three months after Assad’s ouster in December ended his brutal ...

Clashes in Syria’s coastal areas kill more than 700 people, a monitor says. Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa's government ...

Alawites made up a large part of Assad’s support base for decades ... The previous figure given by the group was more than 600 dead. No official figures have been released.

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