In Latakia, a Syrian coastal city that has been the site of killings targeting the Alawite minority, four Sunni and Shiite ...

In the Alawite village in Israel, Ghajar, you will see the ‘Garden of Peace,’ with symbols of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. We are an open religion that is far from any of the nonsense of ...

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad was reportedly turned down after asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to help establish an Alawite statelet along Syria’s coast. Russia rejected the ...

Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia Islam, ... Down the road, the once illustrious tomb of Bashar's father is now a symbol of the rebel advance.

Five men from Syria’s Alawite minority were found dead in hospital two days after being detained by security forces, a war monitor said Wednesday, alleging they had been “summarily executed ...

Syria’s Alawites – some 10% of the population – were prominent in the Assad regime, and while many Alawites have surrendered their weapons since December, many others have not.

More than 1,300 Syrians killed in 72 hours amid clashes and acts of revenge A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite ...

The residents, members of the Alawite minority, now say their excitement has been replaced by fear.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.

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator. Alawites wary as a post-Assad Syria takes shape - Los Angeles Times ...

Al-Qardaha sits in the middle of Latakia province on Syria’s western Mediterranean coast — a region that is the heartland of the country’s Alawite minority, which includes the Assads.