Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...

The violence in Tartous province marks the deadliest challenge yet to the Islamist-led authorities which swept Bashar ...

Several interior ministry personnel were killed in a clash as they went to arrest an officer of the ousted Assad regime.

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known by nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Golani, speaks at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, ...

Syria's new rebel-led authorities say supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops ...

especially in areas where Alawites live, since jihadists led by the HTS took power. After two churches and a patriarchate were reportedly attacked, on December 18, in Hama, central Syria, masked and ...

Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14.

Although members of the Christian community said they are happy to see the Assad regime go, many are wary of their new ...

Syria’s population is predominantly Arab and Sunni Muslim, but minority communities have long been part of the region. Alawites, a Shiite sect and one of the largest minority groups, constitute about ...

Syria's new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, with a war ...