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 ...

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

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

Syria's Alawites are living in fear following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to the Washington Post ...

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.

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

But Alawites fear a backlash against their sect, long associated with the Assads. The new authorities deny wrongdoing, saying they are after former Assad forces. Shihadi Mayhoub, a former lawmaker ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...