(Reuters) - Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, ...

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

They are thrilled at the death of the Alawites, the same tribe from which came the Assad family. Western governments ostensibly should have demanded fair trials for any Alawite who was involved in the ...

Greece has been deeply alarmed over the renewed violence that broke out in Syria last week, in which over 1,000 people are ...

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

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

DUBAI (Reuters) -A Syrian military operation against loyalists of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad has been completed, ...

But despite authorities calling for an end to the sectarian incitement, the clashes turned deadly, and many civilians were ...