Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

(AP Photo/Omar Albam, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BEIRUT (AP) — A month after ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad.

Most belonged to Syria’s Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shia Islam to which deposed president Bashar al-Assad also belonged. Before the civil war, there were around 2 million Alawites in the ...

Leaders of Syria's Christian minority have made a plea for co-existence in meetings with the first members of the US Congress ...

as the interim government is predominantly Sunni and has done little to prevent Sunni violence against the Alawite minority. There is a growing risk that sectarian revanchists on both sides may ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s presidency announced on Friday that it would extend a probe into the killings of Alawite civilians in ...

The Muslim minority group was seen as a privileged minority under the rule of the Alawite Assad family, but since Bashar Assad ’s government fell late last year members have feared revenge from ...

FILE - Members of the Alawite minority gather outside the Russian air base in Hmeimim, near Latakia in Syria's coastal region, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, as they seek refuge there after recent ...

BEIRUT — A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller attacks ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller ...