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

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

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 ...

Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...

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 ...

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.

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

More than 1,300 dead in a few days - US condemns "Islamist terrorists & foreign jihadists who murder civilians" - Turkey ...

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 ...

SOHR further reported that Syrian security forces carried out at least 162 summary executions of Alawites in Latakia province ...

The violence broke out on Thursday, three months after the insurgent-led government seized power, bringing an end to Assad’s ...