Clad in black in a modest apartment in central Beirut, Rima weeps for the relatives she lost in the recent wave of violence ...

An American citizen from Oklahoma was among eight men, all family members, rounded up and killed during the sectarian ...

With loved ones trapped in Syria and videos of brutal attacks spreading on social media, they're begging for someone - anyone ...

Video circulating online and verified by NBC News showed Hosam Saraya, 35, and six male relatives being made to kneel before ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

Sectarian violence has turned a Syrian city into a slaughterhouse, and survivors recount shelling, executions and burials in ...

Clashes broke out last week that were sparked by tit-for-tat kidnappings between armed Bedouin clans and fighters with the ...

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, said the clashes started after members of a Bedouin tribe ...

Hikmat al-Hijri is a religious leader of the Druze minority in Syria. The 60- year-old spiritual leader of Syria's Druze ...

Syrian troops on Thursday pulled out of the Druze heartland of Sweida on the orders of the Islamist-led government, following ...