August 12, 2013
7:37 pm

A street corner in the majority Alawite city of Latakia (photo credit: CC BY-Yazan Badran/Flickr)

Syrian rebel leader lands in Assad family homeland

Regime forces launch counteroffensive against fighters in Latakia province, an area heavily populated by Alawites

By RYAN LUCAS

August 11, 2013
8:55 am

Illustrative photo of a car bombing in Syria (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syrian rebels claim they killed 40 Hezbollah, Iranian fighters

Opposition says it detonated a car bomb next to a building packed with foreign pro-Assad forces; no official confirmation

By Lazar Berman and AP

August 10, 2013
12:23 pm

Activists: 20 people killed in Syrian air raid

Government war planes bomb Sunni Muslim village in western heartland of President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect

August 5, 2013
8:26 pm

The Khalid Ibn al-Walid Mosque in the heavily disputed northern neighborhood of Khaldiyeh, in Homs, Syria, on Saturday, July 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syrian rebels capture towns in regime stronghold

Opposition fighters gain symbolic victory against Assad’s forces as civil war rages on

August 4, 2013
11:51 pm

A Kurdish female member of the Popular Protection Units stands guard at a checkpoint near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria, March 3, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

Syria’s war splits nation into 3 distinct regions

Regime forces, rebels and Kurds each control territories, boasting their own flags, security agencies and judicial systems

By Zeina Karam

July 11, 2013
5:56 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview broadcast on al-Manar television on Thursday, May 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/al-Manar television)

Assad applauds fall of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

Embattled Syrian leader accuses Morsi’s ousted party and other Islamist groups of using religion ‘as a mask’

By Albert Aji

June 17, 2013
2:28 pm

Damaged buildings during battles between the rebels and the Syrian government forces, in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, June 13, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Car bomb kills 20 in Syria

Upscale Damascus neighborhood that is home to military airport and several embassies is target of latest rebel attack

June 13, 2013
9:38 pm

An employee at "Damashki" (or "The Guy From Damascus") bakery co-owned by Bassel Shunar, a Palestinian by origin who was born in Syria but who fled the country and arrived in the Gaza Strip two months ago. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza suffers drop in foreign aid over Syrian war

Hamas officials say Iran has reduced monthly cash transfers, and aid to charities is being diverted to Syrian issues

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh

June 8, 2013
2:28 am

Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi delivering a Friday sermon on September 14, 2012. (screen capture: MEMRI)

Hezbollah entry in Syrian conflict fans Shiite-Sunni fires

Sunni leaders call on the faithful to embark on jihad against Muslim rivals in Syria, threatening regional conflict

By Lee Keath

May 27, 2013
12:56 pm

A man looks at a part of a rocket, seen on the ground, after rockets slammed into two Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, Sunday May 26, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ahmad Omar)

Lebanese neighbors fight Syrian proxy war

Sunni and Shiite groups battle it out in Tripoli, in a reflection of the brutal civil strife raging across the border

By Karin Laub

May 25, 2013
9:11 am

An oilfield (illustrative photo: AP/Manu Brabo)

Assad’s not-so-secret weapon: loyal Syrian businessmen

From the web WSJ: A critical reason for the regime’s resilience is a close circle of financiers who help Damascus with oil contracts and supply transport

By Sam Dagher

May 19, 2013
2:28 pm

Shelling in Syria kills at least 16, activists say

Rebel-held Qusair, near the Lebanon border, is the target of a new government offensive

By Jamal Halaby

May 14, 2013
11:13 pm

A Lebanese army soldier passes in front of Syrian flag, in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)

Attacks against Lebanese Alawites deepen fears

Specter of Syrian civil war spilling into Lebanon rises as wave of violence against Assad’s sect crashes over northern town

By Bassem Mroue

May 4, 2013
11:08 am

Syrian army soldiers, seen in the background, standing in front of dead bodies at Bayda village, in the mountains outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria, in May (photo credit: AP/The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad)

Hundreds flee Syrian city after reported massacre

Carnage, raids by Assad troops in Sunni neighborhood in Banias prompt families to leave Alawite area

May 4, 2013
9:20 am

A Syrian man (center), identifies dead bodies who were killed, according to activists, by Syrian forces loyal to Bashar Assad, in Bayda, outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria, on May 2, 2013. (photo credit: AP/The Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad)

‘Images of Sabra and Shatila in Syria’

Topic: Alawites