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

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

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

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 ...

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...

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

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 the ...

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

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syrian security forces deployed heavily in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on March 8, ...

According to a Syrian war monitor, the latest executions in Latakia is among the highest death tolls in the war-torn country ...