Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...
The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...
Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...
Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...
Syrian authorities called off a military campaign to spread government control over the strategic coastal region on Monday, ...
While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...
Assad's fall, with over 1,000 fatalities in the coastal region. Sectarian tensions between the Sunni Islamist-led government ...
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.