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 ...

In Latakia, a Syrian coastal city that has been the site of killings targeting the Alawite minority, four Sunni and Shiite couples had a joint wedding. The celebration aimed to counter the ...

The residents, members of the Alawite minority, now say their excitement has been replaced by fear.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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some 30,000 Alawite Syrians have fled to Lebanon over the past month, the United Nation’s refugee agency says, scattered in some 30 towns and villages in northern Lebanon.

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 ...

The Alawite protest in Homs on Dec. 25 ended with gunfire. HTS blamed former regime elements who infiltrated the gathering, while residents said rebel fighters fired on the crowd, killing at least ...

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.