The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR ... as “the largest collective act of revenge in the coast and its mountains,” with the death toll expected to rise.

The BBC team found Dalaal seeking refuge alongside thousands of other people in a remote Russian airbase in the country's ...

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

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

Intense fighting in Syria over two days has resulted in a death ... Many Alawite families have fled to nearby mountains, while some sought shelter at a Russian airbase in Hmeimim.

The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

Supporters of the overthrown Syrian president Bashar al-Assad carried out attacks on members of the defense and interior ...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ... adding that thousands of people have fled to nearby mountains for safety. Residents of Baniyas, one of the towns worst hit by the ...

After the outbreaks of violence in Syria at the weekend, activists said on Tuesday that members of the Alawite religious minority ...

The Syrian Interior Ministry acknowledged "individual ... Homes were looted and torched, forcing thousands to flee to the nearby mountains. Baniyas, one of the worst-hit towns, has witnessed ...