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

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

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

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, Jableh and Banias. A further 300 members of the security forces and ...

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

The ordeal of this family of Alawites – a religious group that broke away from Shia Islam – unfolded in several acts. It began on the evening of Thursday, March 6, with the fighting between ...

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 ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

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 ...

At least 1,000 Alawites – a minority sect of Shia Muslims from which the Assad family, which led the old regime, originate – have been killed over the past few days, according to the UK-based ...