The EU has added the Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade and its leader Abu Amsha, the Hamza Division and its leader Sayf Boulad Abu ...

including scores of civilians who were killed after government forces committed “widespread field executions” of young men and adults. Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, on Sunday ...

The EU on Wednesday imposed sanctions on three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders over human rights abuses ...

At least 745 civilians belonging to Syria’s Alawite minority have been killed execution-style by the country’s security forces and their allies in the past two days, a war monitor said Saturday.

adding that many of the “summary executions” targeted members of the Alawite minority. The Assad family, which ruled Syria for more than half a century, are members of the minority Shiite ...

On Thursday, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported ... Armed men linked to the new regime carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to eyewitnesses and ...

Hundreds of members of Syria’s Alawite minority ... called for national unity Sunday as videos of mass executions and bodies piled in the streets of Alawite villages proliferated online.

More than 1,300 people in Syria have been killed — many believed ... The Observatory characterized many of the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite ...

Across Syria's east and in its vast deserts ... mercilessly rampaged through Alawite territories, conducting summary executions, maiming and tormenting civilian populations.

Under mounting international pressure, Syria’s interim government has announced the formation of what it called an “independent” commission of inquiry to investigate the mass executions.

Damascus authorities have blamed summary executions of dozens of youths and deadly raids on homes in villages and towns inhabited by Syria's once-ruling minority on unruly armed militias who came ...

The Britain-based Observatory said they were killed in "executions" carried out by security ... two residents of Syria’s coastal region told the AP. The violence on the Syrian coast Saturday ...