Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...

Local television reports that the country's president has ordered the creation of an independent commission to investigate ...

The United Nations (UN) called on Syria’s interim government on March 9 2025 to take urgent action to protect civilians ...

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

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

When the new government took over, it dismissed the Assad regime police and other forces, leaving a security vacuum. Now, ...

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

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

They are thrilled at the death of the Alawites, the same tribe from which came the Assad family. Western governments ...

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 ...

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...