Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Monday a new transitional government would aim for consensus in rebuilding the ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

At least 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in Syria's coastal ...

Alawites were targeted in door-to-door massacres after a clash between fighters from Syria’s old regime and new government ...

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

Some recent reports speak of several thousand dead. It is, mostly, Muslim-on-Muslim violence, a bloody Alawite Muslim insurgency suppressed with brute force by the Sunni Muslim authorities who ...

Syria’s new government, dominated by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s inner circle, faces the daunting challenge of ...

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

Pune: Close on the heels of the brutal massacre of 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Islamic terror outfit aligned with ISIS, another round of ...

Alawites revenge: The future of the Alawite ... What's happening in this Muslim nation Women of this tribe bath only once in their life, never use water, yet their bodies remain clean due ...