While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...
Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...
Local television reports that the country's president has ordered the creation of an independent commission to investigate ...
Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...
Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...
Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...
The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Syrian authorities to “prosecute those responsible for the massacre,” adding that the United States stands with Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities, ...