The bloodletting between Alawites and forces backing Syria’s new government surprised many. But tensions had been building ...

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

When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean ...

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] live in an Islamist country and not be [Sunni] Muslim?” ...

A humanitarian organization linked to the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Sunday that it ...

As government reinforcements deployed, mosques in regions loyal to the new administration ... WHO ARE THE ALAWITES? The ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Residents of the Kurdish-held northeast Syria (Rojava) recently launched a campaign to aid the ...

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

Syria’s interim government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast ...

Since the fall of Assad, Mourad has repeatedly stated that no deliberate violence has been committed against Christians in ...