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 ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol near Latakia by pro-Assad gunmen has ignited days of clashes, leading to over 1,000 ...

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 ...

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

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

SOHR further reported that Syrian security forces carried out at least 162 summary executions of Alawites in Latakia province ...

The violence broke out on Thursday, three months after the insurgent-led government seized power, bringing an end to Assad’s ...

The killing of at least 745 civilians in massacres targeting the Alawite minority in Syria exposes the criminality of NATO ...

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