Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

In the Al-Qusour district, residents are trying to go back to their lives after the deadly attacks carried out by various ...

Messages from survivors of the sectarian violence in which over 1,500 civilians were killed describe methodical carnage, ...

It was only a matter of time until the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen of Syria’s post-Assad interim government took into ...

Al-Sharaa set up a fact-finding committee to investigate the killings and has vowed to hold the culprits to account. The attacks targeted the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam that the Assad ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

Syria's Christians, already abused by decades of war and oppression, saw the massacre as a chilling reminder of their own ...

Syrian security forces escort Alawite families back to their village in Latakia, Syria, on March 13, 2025. KHALIL ASHAWI / REUTERS Abu Yahya sipped his coffee; Abu Osama drank a maté. The two men ...

The attacks targeted the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam that the Assad family are members of, and which dominated their regime for over half a century until they were ousted. Videos ...

Most of those killed in the recent attacks, which occurred over a period of days earlier this month, were Alawites - an offshoot of Shia Islam, and Assad's minority sect. Abdulkafi Kayal ...