‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal town
A CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, ...
Syria descends into violence: Who are the Alawites who are being killed in hundreds?
At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...
Syria's Worst Violence in Months Reopens Wounds of the Civil War
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...