In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...
The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...
Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...
Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor and an attendee said.
Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...
How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...
As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...
Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.
In Syria’s Alawite heartland, the story of Zarda Khadour mirrors the plight of countless others. A retired cook from Masyaf, she spent 30 years working at a chi ...
Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...
Bulent Kuş hopes the Sunni Muslims won’t harm the Alawites now they are in control of Syria - Bradley Secker In the Turkish coastal town Samandag, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has met ...