Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Recent days have seen sectarian tensions in Syria between the majority Sunni community and ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...

On Wednesday, rebels with the Islamist group that overthrew the regime, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), burned the tomb of ...

Assad's recent ouster, ethnic Syrian Alawites have found themselves increasingly anxious over the future under HTS rule, ...

Like many in Jableh, they are Alawites, a minority from which the Assad family descends. Syria latest: UK in 'diplomatic ...

Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the ...

“Bashar al-Assad was a protector of the Alawites,” said Bulent Kuş, 50, staring out at sea. “With him gone, we Alawites may face pressures.” “Now that the Sunni Muslims have come to ...

Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...

Like many in Jableh, they are Alawites, a minority from which the Assad family descends. Syria latest: UK in 'diplomatic contact' with rebel group For a large part of the civil war in Syria ...