Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...

Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

A people who shaped Turkish literature through their poets, performed their worship in Turkish, and preserved their language, ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

In his first interview to a global news agency, held after hundreds died in four days of clashes between Alawite Muslims and ...

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 745 civilians, 125 government security force members and 148 militants ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, ...

Hundreds of Alawite Muslims have been massacred in Syria’s coastal regions as violence escalates between security forces and ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...