Gunmen in Syria have shot dead 10 people in a "massacre" in a village home to members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are weighing whether to trust them.

“I’m more concerned for the Alawites (the minority group from which the Assad family hailed, Ed.),” noted Archbishop Mourad. “They were victims of the previous regime, but now they face ...

Three-quarters of Syria’s 23 million citizens are Sunnis, one-tenth are Alawites, and the rest are a mix of Christians, Ismaili Shiites and Druze. Shambos said the situation inside Syria remains ...

The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites are a minority sect which follows an esoteric offshoot of Shiite Islam.

On Jan. 4, the Iran-backed Alawite Islamic Forum (AIF) accused the HTS-led government of ignoring sectarian violence. Clashes between the Ankara-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and the Kurdish ...

“They told me, ‘You’re an Alawite pig!’ They treated me like an animal because I’m Alawite,” he said, speaking under the condition of anonymity for safety reasons. In a secluded ...

The jihadists’ frustrations are finding an outlet in attacks on the Alawite sect that propped up the Assads. In Homs, a largely Sunni city where Mr Assad resettled Alawites en masse, Sunnis from ...

This has particularly alarmed minority groups like the Alawites, who share religious ties with Assad. The operation, which began on Monday morning, has involved the detention of hundreds of ...

From our special correspondent in Syria – A month after Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed, Syria's Alawite minority, which served as the regime's backbone, fears a witch hunt. In their ...

A month after Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed, Syria's Alawite minority, which served as the regime's backbone, fears a witch hunt. In their stronghold of Tartus, members of the community ...