The vast majority were adult men, but victims included approximately 100 women, the elderly and the disabled, as well as ...

Syrian government forces and their allies are likely to have committed war crimes during their crackdown against Alawite ...

The report, which focused on violence against Syria’s Alawite communities along the Mediterranean coast in March, uncovered ...

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria's coastal region.

While exact figures remain difficult to verify, more than 1,300 individuals, most of them Alawites, lost their lives. In some cases, entire families were summarily executed. Although the Syrian ...

Syria's interim government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa was likely guilty of war crimes during sectarian violence that culminated ...

A UN commission investigating sectarian bloodshed in Syria's Alawite heartland documented systematic violence at the hands of ...

An inquiry found that members of the new government’s forces took part in killing Syrian civilians during sectarian fighting ...

U.N. investigators reported likely war crimes by interim Syrian forces and forces loyal to the former Assad regime. The ...

The commission said it had recorded cases of “murder, torture and inhumane acts related to the treatment of the dead, ...

A United Nations commission investigating deadly March violence in Syria’s Alawite-majority coastal areas said the attacks, ...

Among Syria’s minorities, two key factors make the Alawites most vulnerable to mass violence in post-Assad Syria. The first factor is that, like the Druze, Alawites have their own distinct ...