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

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials ...

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, have been killed in a shooting in Tartous province, home to a majority Alawite population ...

Pune: Close on the heels of the brutal massacre of 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Islamic terror outfit aligned with ISIS, another round of ...

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

Syria is witnessing its deadliest eruption of violence since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December. More than 1,300 people have been killed in clashes between the Syrian security forces and ...

For over 50 years, the Alawite dynasty—an offshoot of Shia Islam—governed Syria, a predominantly Sunni nation. This rule, initiated by Hafez al-Assad (an Alawite) in 1970, abruptly ended in December ...

Hundreds of Alawite civilians have reportedly been killed in violent attacks in Syria's coastal region. That's caused thousands to flee to Lebanon from the villages in the former stronghold of ...

The violence and revenge killings in Syria have once again torn open the scars of its 13-year civil war. An attack on Thursday near the port city of Latakia led to the worst bloodshed since ...