Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Gunmen in Syria have shot dead 10 people in a "massacre" in a village from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor said on Saturday. "Gunmen carried out a massacre on ...

After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure minorities in multi-ethnic multi-confessional Syria that they will be protected.

But Alawites, from a branch of Shiite Islam, have an acute fear of reprisals because of their connection to the Assad clan, which recruited from and favoured its own religious community for military ...

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

GHAJAR — On a recent morning in the Alawite village of Ghajar, straddling the border between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, children played in the school playground, a woman hung her laundry on the ...

At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland. After Islamist-led ...

Alawites account for about nine percent of Syria’s population, or around 1.7 million people. The community has been repeatedly targeted since Assad’s ouster.

Jableh (Syria) (AFP) – At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority ...

Two easy jam-filled desserts satisfy the craving for bright, bold berries when they’re far from their peak. By Melissa Clark Melissa Clark currently has 14 open jars of jam in her fridge.