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 ...

The agreement was signed by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

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 ...

Plenty of Syrians are disappointed by the lack of justice for the former regime. Deals have been cut with commanders ...

Members of Syria's small Christian community on the coast are living in fear after attacks killed more than 1,000 mostly ...

It began on March 6, forces in the coastal region came under attack from fighters under the Assad regime.  Read more at ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...

A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

Syria’s interim government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...