- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic ...

Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

A charity that campaigns against the persecution of Christians worldwide has condemned false reports of a “Christian genocide ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, ...

Hundreds of Alawite Muslims have been massacred in Syria’s coastal regions as violence escalates between security forces and ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...