While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

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 ...

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

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

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

Religious minority group Alawites, who have been the target of the ongoing revenge killings in Syria, narrated the ordeal of ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...

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

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...