Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

Iran's foreign ministry said Monday there was "no justification" for attacks on minorities in Syria, including Alawites, the ...

Latest reports indicate that 250 armed supporters of the country's former leader have been killed since the situation ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

Syria: Clashes between new security forces and Assad loyalists erupted on Thursday in the Alawite heartland, escalating into ...

For two days, Rihab Kamel and her family hid terrified in their bathroom in the city of Baniyas as armed men stormed the ...

The recent killings of Alawite and Christian civilians by the new Syrian government have been condemned by the U.S., while the EU offered a different response.

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

"We expect the Danish presidency to appoint them at ten in New York (2:00 p.m. GMT) on March 10," Russia’s First Deputy ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad has escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...