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 ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst violence seen in the country in years. Hundreds of people have been killed in th ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be the latest game in the long-running series, but its feudal Japan setting places it at the midpoint of the series’ historical timeline. That’s because Assassin’s Creed ...

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 ...

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...