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

Ten thousand members of the Alawite minority escaping sectarian violence in Syria have crossed into Lebanon over the past ...

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

Clashes between Assad loyalists and the country's new Islamist rulers in the former president's coastal heartland have killed ...

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

When the new government took over, it dismissed the Assad regime police and other forces, leaving a security vacuum. Now, ...

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.

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

The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights says that 745 civilians from the Alawite minority have been killed since clashes ...

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 ...