A U.N.-backed commission named several government-affiliated factions whose members allegedly took part in 'extrajudicial killings and torture and ill-treatment' of civilians in Alawite-majority areas.| Los Angeles Times
Security video from a hospital in Sweida in southern Syria shows what appears to be the killing of a medical worker by men in military garb.| Los Angeles Times
Sectarian violence has turned a Syrian city into a slaughterhouse, and survivors recount shelling, executions and burials in a mass grave.| Los Angeles Times
Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then Israel intervened, bombing Damascus.| Los Angeles Times
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