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

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

Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...

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

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

Assad's recent ouster, ethnic Syrian Alawites have found themselves increasingly anxious over the future under HTS rule, ...

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

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

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 ...

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 ...

Protests erupted in Syria in areas dominated by the Alawite minority after video spread of militants desecrating an Alawite shrine. Alawites are widely seen as loyal to the former Assad regime.

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