After Sunnis, which comprise 70% of Syria’s population, the Alawite is the largest sect in the country. President Ahmed al-Sharaa views Alawites as ‘remnants of Assad’s regime’ and holds them responsi ...

Syria's Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country's powerhouses. They are now ...

The organizations have urged the international community to launch an independent investigation into what they describe as ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

For 14 years, Syria has been engulfed in a civil war. Until three months ago, dictator Bashar al-Assad controlled the ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that several regions in Syria have witnessed an escalating wave of targeted killings and individual acts of retribution. The organization noted ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

The Syrian interim government’s forces have regained control over costal areas and are chasing pro-Assad armed groups in ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the violence by ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ and expressed support for minority ...

Many thought they were designed to provide the Alawites with the underpinnings of an alternative state in case Syria broke up ...

745 civilians belonging to Syria’s Alawite minority have been killed in execution-style by the country’s security forces and their allies in the past two days, a war monitor said Saturday. Witnesses ...

Clashes in Syria’s coastal areas kill more than 700 people, a monitor says. Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa's government ...