They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...

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

Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor and an attendee said.

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

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Our youth, who were provoked after an attack on an Alawite Muslim gravesite in Aleppo, didn’t commit a crime but made a mistake with some of their statements. “We condemn such actions and words.

Mr. Hilal, part of Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority, said that when he was in the military as a young conscript, he saw for himself how Alawite soldiers and officers were treated differently.

has sought to reassure minority communities in the Sunni Muslim majority country. Assad, from the Alawite offshoot of Shiite Islam, long portrayed himself as a protector of religious minorities.

Syria's new rebel-led authorities say 14 interior ministry personnel have been killed and 10 injured in an "ambush" by forces ...