The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor and an attendee said.

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

Despite the rhetoric of HTS leaders about tolerance for minorities, there’s more developing behind the scenes than is being ...

About 10 percent of Syrians belong to the sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and Alawites dominated the ruling class and upper ranks of the military under the Assad dynasty. As the country emerges ...

The Alawites’ concerns are twofold: They are afraid of a possible reckoning by rebels on the grounds of their presumed identification with the Assad regime, and they are worried about ...

Given the key role Alawites played in Assad's brutally repressive government, experts had expected sectarian violence to be more widespread. But HTS has worked to reduce tensions in villages where ...