In the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, revellers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government in Damascus and local Kurdish-led authorities, ...

Survivors, witnesses and rights groups describe wave of violence since last Thursday Syria's defence ministry announced on ...

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

Yasser al-Farhan, the commission’s spokesperson, said during a press conference in Damascus: “No one is above the law. Anyone found guilty of human rights violations will face accountability, and our ...

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

At least 973 civilians were killed in the initial attack by Alawite gunmen and killings that followed as the military and security forces intervened, the independent monitoring group Syrian ...

Just like in 2011, thousands of Syrians, in this case Alawites, wade through the river that serves as a border with Lebanon to escape the persecution by the allied forces of the new government. The ...

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

They kidnapped; they killed; they humiliated; they kicked people out of jobs," explained an Alawite writer living in coastal Syria. "One way or another, this was going to happen.""This" is the ...

Caution is warranted as regime elements appear to participate in ethnic cleansing.

This is exactly the kind of violence that should have international media splashing over, but it didn’t get the attention it ...

A committee formed by Syria's new authorities to investigate a wave of deadly violence said on Tuesday the country was ...