Syria, Alawite

Over 1,200 dead as ‘mass killing’ of Alawites continues despite Syrian leader’s call for peace
Over 1,200 dead as ‘mass killing’ of Alawites continues despite Syrian leader’s call for peace - Sharaa's government urged to investigate targeted killings of hundreds of civilians in Alawite villages
What's driving killings in Syria and who are the Alawites?
Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday.
Hundreds reported killed in sectarian violence in Syria’s Alawite heartland
The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the Sunni Islamist government.
Syria Violence Marked by Sectarian and Revenge Killings, War Monitor Says
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated into it were largely responsible for the sectarian violence.
Mass executions in Syria’s Alawite heartland: Who is responsible?
Over 1,200 Alawites killed in Syria’s Mediterranean coast amid post-Assad violence, raising sectarian tensions.
Entire families killed in Syria sectarian violence, UN says
Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last week, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday.
“A Devastating Tragedy”: 1,000+ People Killed in Syria Amid Reports of Massacres Against Alawites
In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling family,
More than 1,000 killed in Syrian crackdown on Alawite region, war monitor says
Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers killed more than 340 people, the head of a war monitor said.
Syria in mourning after mass killings in Alawite region
Assad's régime in Syria, the new government, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, have drawn international condemnation for a four day spiral of violence in the regions of Latakia and Tartus. When a group of gunmen loyal to Assad ambushed Syrian security forces,
New Syrian leader Sharaa says killings of Alawites threaten unity, vows justice
Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...
Amid massacre of Alawites in Syria, Islamist HTS regime and Kurdish SDF reach agreement
The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous ...
Fearing for their lives, Syrian refugees flee into Lebanon
After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...
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Unknown number of Christians among civilian deaths in Syrian violence
An untold number of Christians were among nearly 1,000 civilians massacred in renewed violence on Syria’s western coast ...
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Thousands of Syria Alawites seek refuge in Russian air base: Monitor
Thousands of Alawites sought refuge in Russia's Hmeimim military air base in western Syria on Tuesday, a war monitor said, ...
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Syria’s coastal violence unleashes a wave of killing and a deluge of fake news
On March 6, armed fighters loyal to former Syrian president Bashar Al Assad launched an attack on Syria's interim-government troops in Latakia. Syrian authorities, supported by pro-government militias ...
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Syria, fear returns to cross the Arab GrandRiver
Just like in 2011, thousands of Syrians, in this case Alawites, wade through the river that serves as a border with Lebanon to escape the persecution by the allied forces of the new government. The ...
In two days, Ghada lost 'about 70' family members in Syria. She fears more bad news
Syrian-Australians are mourning the loss of family members in their homeland after the reported killings of hundreds of civilians, mostly from the Alawite minority, in recent violence.