A religious minority in Syria, the Alawite sect makes up 12% of the country's population, whose majority belongs to the Sunni ...

At least 973 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in Syria in recent days as forces of the new ...

It is rare to hear of a regime in our time that has triumphed and treated its followers and affiliates with nobility and ...

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

Local television reports that the country's president has ordered the creation of an independent commission to investigate ...

The United Nations (UN) called on Syria’s interim government on March 9 2025 to take urgent action to protect civilians ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

Latest reports indicate that 250 armed supporters of the country's former leader have been killed since the situation ...

They are thrilled at the death of the Alawites, the same tribe from which came the Assad family. Western governments ostensibly should have demanded fair trials for any Alawite who was involved in the ...

The recent killings of Alawite and Christian civilians by the new Syrian government have been condemned by the U.S., while the EU offered a different response.

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...