A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are ...

The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.

Nikolas Farantouris had accused the EU High Representative of whitewashing the extremist Al-Jolani by not directly pointing ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s presidency announced on Friday that it would extend a probe into the killings of Alawite civilians in ...

Syria's new president said those responsible for the killings would be punished, but many Alawites said they did not believe that would happen. Qassem* lies on a stretcher in a vacant flat in ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed Monday in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in coastal and central regions, after massacres earlier ...

The announcement came some three weeks after clashes between government-aligned forces and Assad loyalists in the country’s coastal provinces left more than 2,000 people dead, most of them Alawites.

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A group of Alawites loyal to Assad had launched a fledgling insurgency hours earlier in coastal areas, some 200 miles (320 km) to the northwest. That unleashed a spree of revenge killings there ...

A group of Alawites loyal to Assad had launched a fledgling insurgency hours earlier in coastal areas, some 200 miles to the northwest. That unleashed a spree of revenge killings there that left ...