Clashes between pro-government forces and loyalists of the ousted regime turned into vicious campaign targeting the Alawite sect. The deposed president, Bashar Assad, is an Alawite and many Syrians ...

BEIRUT — The Haydar family huddled in their apartment while gunmen stalked their hometown of Baniyas, hunting for members of Syria’s minority Alawite sect like them. After 24 terrifying hours, a ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation between diverse sects. This is a three-part series about the Alawite sect in ...

BEIRUT: Syria must publish the full results of an investigation into the March killings of Alawite civilians and ensure those responsible are held accountable, Amnesty International said Wednesday ...

A mother and her daughter hunch down by the windows of their attic as armed men gather outside the gate. They try not to make a sound. But in the video that they furtively recorded of this fraught ...

Residents of the Syria's Alawite heartland have begun trickling back to their homes after fleeing sectarian killings in the past 10 days, witnesses said on Sunday, but fears still grip the coastal ...

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On Wednesday, Amnesty International urged Syria’s transitional president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, to ensure the publication of all the findings of a fact-finding committee’s investigation into the targeted ...

Islamists didn’t target the church in the violence that killed more than 1,000, but the community is on edge. Adi Oweis was lounging with his kids in his Maryland home last week when his phone lit up ...

In the midst of the Alawite massacre in Syria, in which nearly 1,000 civilians were killed, an agreement was reached between the Western-backed Sunni Islamist regime of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and ...