They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor and an attendee said.

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

About 10 percent of Syrians belong to the sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and Alawites dominated the ruling class and upper ranks of the military under the Assad dynasty. As the country emerges ...

Bulent Kuş hopes the Sunni Muslims won’t harm the Alawites now they are in control of Syria - Bradley Secker In the Turkish coastal town Samandag, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has met ...

Sham (HTS) terrorist group has launched a crackdown on a minority group in Homs after recent protests against HTS who seized ...

Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.

Syria's Alawites are living in fear following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to the Washington Post this week. During his rule, Assad recruited many Alawites as military ...