Thousands have fled into Lebanon after tensions between Syria’s Alawite minority and forces backing the new government exploded last week.

Lebanon could be on the brink of a “massive” new refugee crisis if massacres of the Alawite minority in Syria continue, ...

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government ...

Syrian families who fled the clashes in Syria hold their luggages as they cross a river marking the border between Syria and northern Lebanon near the village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province, ...

Now in Lebanon, many of the displaced Alawis say they refuse to return to Syria for the time being, despite the situation ...

The UN human rights office has verified the killing of 111 civilians in the coastal region, but says the actual figure is far ...

Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon, among hundreds of people ...

But the Syrian Observatory counted some 600 revengeful ... When Assad was overthrown, many expected "rivers of blood" in reaction to decades of oppression under the Baath rule and atrocities ...