Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...
Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...
While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...
Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...
Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Syrian authorities to “prosecute those responsible for the massacre,” adding that the United States stands with Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities, ...
NNA - Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday there was “no justification” for attacks on minorities in Syria, including Alawites, the community to which toppled president Bashar al-A ...
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO, speaks of over 830 civilians killed in ‘massacres’ targeting ...