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

The violence in March unfolded along Syria’s predominantly Alawite Mediterranean coast, where security personnel and their allies were accused of carrying out summary executions, mostly targeting ...

A UN commission investigating sectarian bloodshed in Syria's Alawite heartland in March has found security forces of the new government and its allies, as well as fighters loyal to the deposed Assad ...