Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as ...

Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite ...

By Maya Gebeily, Timour Azhari and Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian ...

Qassem's home was among the many majority-Alawite villages attacked by armed groups linked to Syria's new government between March 6–10. From Bashar al-Assad's abandoned palace to the site of ...

Dominique Soguel’s report on the backlash violence leveled at Syria’s minority Alawite community since the fall of Bashar al-Assad – an Alawite – is a raw story of loss. It also sheds ...

With Bashar al-Assad's departure, the fate of Syria's Alawite community remains precarious. Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni ...

Syria has seen the worst outbreak of violence since the ousting of former President Bashar al-Assad late last year, after armed men descended on Alawite heartlands on Thursday in what Syrian ...

A group of Alawites loyal to Assad had launched a fledgling insurgency ... killings there that left hundreds of Alawites dead. Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa told Reuters he dispatched ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol near Latakia by pro-Assad gunmen has ignited days of clashes, leading to over 1,000 deaths and deepening sectarian tensions. The Alawite community ...