TARTUS, Syria — The gunfire began at dawn Friday in the town of al-Haffa on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. At first, Wala, 29, a resident of the town, leaped off her bed to the corner of the ...

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours ... The violence has been concentrated in the coastal areas of Tartus and Latakia, the home of the Alawite community, a ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is the Islamist group whose leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, played a key role in the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad and is now Syria’s de facto president.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 745 Alawite civilians were killed in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus. The Britain-based Observatory said they were killed in ...

Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) questioned the silence from the mobs of anti-Israel protesters in the face of reports of large-scale massacres of minorities in Syria during the last week.

and Tartus, where at least 252 civilians were killed, according to SOHR. Both areas are home to Syria's Alawite community, the small Islamic sect to which the Assad family belongs, and have been a ...

A 12-year-old boy was among four people killed on Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, a coastal region home to a majority Alawite population, provincial officials said in a statement. The attackers, ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four people killed on Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, a coastal region home to a majority Alawite population, provincial officials said in a ...