How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

Rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham killed two people on Sunday in Syria's Alawite areas in the central governorate of ...

Sham (HTS) terrorist group has launched a crackdown on a minority group in Homs after recent protests against HTS who seized ...

Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the ...

The Syrian transitional government’s Ministry of Interior continued a security operation pursuing “remnants of the former ...

After the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Syria, several attacks on the country’s Alawite and Christian ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Recent days have seen sectarian tensions in Syria between the majority Sunni community and Alawites, the non-Muslim sect that ruled Syria for the past 54 years. But who are ...

Alawites are seen as having been loyal to the Assad regime, which was toppled earlier in December. And the protests, as NPR's Diaa Hadid reports from Damascus, touch at the heart of a bigger crisis.

The Alawites feared retribution, and for good reason. The Alawites used terror to maintain power for decades. Most Syrians have good reason to hate the Alawites, as well as all those who have ...

A tense calm prevailed after checkpoints were set up throughout the country’s third-largest city, which has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites and Christians. The security ...