Syrian government forces and their allies are likely to have committed war crimes during their crackdown against Alawite ...

A UN commission investigating sectarian bloodshed in Syria's Alawite heartland documented systematic violence at the hands of ...

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria's coastal region.

The report, which focused on violence against Syria’s Alawite communities along the Mediterranean coast in March, uncovered ...

Top UN human rights investigators said on Thursday that war crimes may have been committed in predominantly Alawite areas of ...

An inquiry found that members of the new government’s forces took part in killing Syrian civilians during sectarian fighting ...

War crimes were likely committed by interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to Syria's former rulers during ...

A United Nations commission investigating deadly March violence in Syria’s Alawite-majority coastal areas said the attacks, ...

U.N. investigators reported likely war crimes by interim Syrian forces and forces loyal to the former Assad regime. The ...

UN investigators document executions, torture, and mass graves in sectarian killings that left 1,400 dead, mostly Alawites.

The commission said it had recorded cases of “murder, torture and inhumane acts related to the treatment of the dead, ...

While exact figures remain difficult to verify, more than 1,300 individuals, most of them Alawites, lost their lives. In some cases, entire families were summarily executed. Although the Syrian ...