In the Triumph of Orthodoxy service on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the clergy and faithful proclaim – with many shouting – bold statements of faith from the year 787, after decades of persecution.

When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean ...

The deadly clashes that erupted this week in an area between Lebanon and Syria have brought historical border issues and ...

The recent violence in Syria’s coastal region represents a significant threat to the country’s political transition.

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad belongs – ...

The cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6. Dozens of messages posted by various armed factions on social media, ...

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, ...

AL-MASSAOUDIYE — Sara (a pseudonym) wore a fuzzy rainbow jacket, her blue rubber sandals caked in thick mud as she trudged up ...

Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and ...

Video clips surfaced showing Jableh city as a deserted wasteland, just as a foreign jihadist had boasted on social media ...

Recent acts of violence in Syrian coastal cities have revealed an escalation of sectarian risks, leading to further political and social polarization. The security apparatus loyal to the new ...

Residents of the Syria's Alawite heartland have begun trickling back to their homes after fleeing sectarian killings in the ...