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

At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

Religious minority group Alawites, who have been the target of the ongoing revenge killings in Syria, narrated the ordeal of ...

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

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.

Syrian government forces and their allies were responsible for the killing of 830 civilians of the Alawite minority community ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syrian security forces deployed heavily in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on March 8, ...

According to a Syrian war monitor, the latest executions in Latakia is among the highest death tolls in the war-torn country ...

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

It accounts for around 10% of Syria's population, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim. Assad belonged to the sect. However, since the civil war intensified, different militant groups have been ...