Despite the rhetoric of HTS leaders about tolerance for minorities, there’s more developing behind the scenes than is being ...

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

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

Bashar al-Assad behaved like a monster not because he was Alawite but because he was a monster." In the seaside town of Tartus, people are beginning to speak out. Razan*, a civil servant ...

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.

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

The residents, members of the Alawite minority, now say their excitement has been replaced by fear. Masked men have terrorized the village, beating people, looting homes and using anti-Alawite slurs.

But at the entrance to areas where the city's Alawite minority lives, armed men in fatigues have set up roadblocks and checkpoints. People in one such neighbourhood, speaking anonymously for fear ...