In his first interview to a global news agency, held after hundreds died in four days of clashes between Alawite Muslims and ...

Syria's interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

Analysts have said the latest violence, with nearly 1,000 dead, calls into question the new authorities' ability to rule ...

Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, ...

Akram has been watching helplessly as his neighbours' homes burn from a hilltop where he took refuge after pro-government gunmen raided villages in the coastal area, the heartland of the Alawite ...

On March 6, clashes erupted in the provinces of Latakia, Tartus, and Homs between security forces loyal to the new Syrian authorities and supporters of former President Bashar Assad ...

The sect has its roots in Shia Islam. The word Alawite means “follower of Ali,” the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ...