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

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

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 ...

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

Over 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President ...

The sect has its roots in Shia Islam. The word Alawite means “follower of Ali,” the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ...

A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.

According to UK-based war monitor, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 1,130 people were killed in the clashes, ...

Violence is flaring across parts of western Syria, as forces of the self-styled Syrian transitional government have clashed with Alawite militias and ...

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

The days-long conflict has been among Syria's deadliest in a decade. Nearly 1,000 civilians have been killed, including women and children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.