While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

Syria’s President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s minority sect were a ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Violence erupted in Syria on Thursday between government security forces and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad ...

Foreign minister says Israel's warnings over new Islamist rulers were accurate after over 1,000 killed in Alawite enclave; ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...

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A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.

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 ...