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

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

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 ...

Members of Syria's small Christian community on the coast are living in fear after attacks killed more than 1,000 mostly ...

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

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect ...

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

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria are sounding the alarm as more than 1,000 people have been killed since ...

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

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

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

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...