Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...
Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...
A religious minority in Syria, the Alawite sect makes up 12% of the country's population, whose majority belongs to the Sunni ...
Ten thousand members of the Alawite minority escaping sectarian violence in Syria have crossed into Lebanon over the past ...
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 162 civilians were "executed" in a coastal region linked to ousted ...
Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...
Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...
Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...
Local television reports that the country's president has ordered the creation of an independent commission to investigate ...
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol near Latakia by pro-Assad gunmen has ignited days of clashes, leading to over 1,000 ...
At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...
The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ...