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

Akram has been watching helplessly as his neighbours' homes burn from a hilltop where he took refuge after pro-government gunmen raided villages in the coastal area, the heartland of the Alawite ...

Considering the genocide of Alawites and Christians in Syria, cooperation The Russian Federation with terrorist President ...

Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, ...

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

Nearly 1,000 civilians have been killed, including women and children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Syria' s Defense Ministry announced the end of military operations against ...

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

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

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

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