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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the recent sectarian violence in Syria, some observers see a grim pattern: Alawite fighters from President Bashar Assad's minority sect, they say, are trying to carve out a breakaway enclave ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Bashar al-Assad is increasingly relying on his Alawite power base to crush pro-democracy protests that have posed the boldest challenge to the Assad family's 41 years of rule over Syria.