Activists protest against the recent wave of violence and sectarian attacks in Syria's coastal region, in Damascus, Syria, ...

Map: The Economist Tensions had been building as Alawites complained of their ostracisation from the administration of Ahmed ...

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

Several reported sites of clashes between Assad-linked forces and Syrian government forces (Google Maps annotated by LWJ ... the heartland of Assad’s Alawite community, and were unprecedented in scale ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, the jihadist-turned-president, has promised to share power, lay out a road map for Syria’s ... by Islamists and note that Syria’s Kurds, Alawites and Druze are not represented.

The leader of the Turkish Party Party, contrary to the government's support for the Julani regime's crimes, stated that the ...

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The latest killings have included a campaign against Syria's Alawites, which was triggered by an attack on new government forces by Assad loyalists. Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay has ...

With Bashar al-Assad's departure, the fate of Syria's Alawite community remains precarious. Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni ...