The European Union has lifted a wide range of sanctions on Syria, but slapped new ones on people it says participated in ...

As former rebel leaders take positions in the new Syrian government, Kurdish officials warn of renewed threats to their ...

The EU on Wednesday imposed sanctions on three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders over human rights abuses ...

The EU has added the Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade and its leader Abu Amsha, the Hamza Division and its leader Sayf Boulad Abu ...

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It would take four full days for the government to restore a semblance of order on the coast. In the meantime, the death toll ...

Militias target Alawites Rights groups reported widespread revenge killings as militants from Syria's Sunni majority targeted Alawites, regardless of whether they were involved in the insurgency.

Before the civil war, there were around 2 million Alawites in the country, making up approximately 12 percent of the population. Weeks earlier, on January 29, following a lightning offensive ...

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR ...

The EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced plans to remove sanctions last week, but said the move was "conditional" ...

Minutes to Leave: Syria's Alawites Evicted From Private Homes at Gunpoint By Amina Ismail DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Early one evening in late January, 12 masked men stormed the Damascus home of Um ...