Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

When the dust settled, the March massacre claimed the lives of at least 1,700 Alawites. Ziad, currently in Lebanon and ...

JANE ARRAF, BYLINE: Syria's president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, spoke at predawn prayers at a mosque on Sunday, ... Most of those killed were civilians from the Alawite religious minority to which Assad ...

The Alawite community gained political power with the rise of Hafez al-Assad, who became Syria’s president in 1970, and this ...

MASSOUDIEH, Lebanon — The Syrian man was carrying his disabled 7-year-old son on his shoulders as the family arrived at a mosque just inside Lebanon to find shelter, fleeing the sectarian ...

More than 700 Alawite civilians have been killed since fighting broke out Thursday, a UK-based war monitor said. ... speaking at a mosque in his childhood neighbourhood of Mazzah in Damascus.

MASSOUDIEH, Lebanon — The Syrian man was carrying his disabled 7-year-old son on his shoulders as the family arrived at a ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the Assad ...

Item 1 of 6 Alawite Syrians, who fled the violence in western Syria, walk at the water of Nahr El Kabir, after the reported mass killings of Alawite minority members, in Akkar, Lebanon March 11, 2025.

Middle East Syrian Alawite leader calls for national unity over sectarianism 'If your sectarian affiliation harms your national affiliation, leave the sect and give priority to the homeland ...