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

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

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

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

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

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

In a district of Baniyas, executions perpetrated against Alawites by Sunni factions caused around 100 deaths. A man in his ...

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

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

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

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