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 ...

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 recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his ...

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 ...

with a majority of Sunni Muslims and a significant Alawite minority, a sect of Shia Islam primarily based in Syria. The attack took place in the Karm al-Zeitoun neighborhood, claiming the lives of ...