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

Syrians flee to an airport which is primarily used for military purposes and serves as a Russian airbase in the northwest ...

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

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

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

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

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 162 civilians were "executed" in a coastal region linked to ousted ...

A religious minority in Syria, the Alawite sect makes up 12% of the country's population, whose majority belongs to the Sunni ...

The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...

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

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

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