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 since the ...

The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.

Nikolas Farantouris had accused the EU High Representative of whitewashing the extremist Al-Jolani by not directly pointing ...

Syria's president has granted a three-month extension to an investigation into last month's sectarian killings of Alawite ...

Who are the Alawites, and when did they emerge? The Alawites began to take shape around the 10th century within the broader Shia world. Following the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 ...

Hundreds of Alawite civilians have fled to Lebanon from the villages in the former stronghold of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, fearing death if they return.

In early March, Islamist-led forces killed over 1,000 civilians – most of them Alawites – in coordinated assaults on coastal areas including Latakia and Baniyas, carrying out executions and ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in coastal and central regions, after massacres earlier ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials said. The coastal region is in the heartland of the Alawite population ...