A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

Reuters spoke with over 200 families of victims during visits to massacre sites and by phone, 40 security officials, fighters ...

Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, ...

The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

LATAKIA, Syria -On January 29, Ahmed al-Sharaa and more than 12 other commanders from armed factions that joined forces to ...

Groups linked to the new Syrian government were reportedly responsible for massacring roughly 1,500 Alawites in Northern ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to ...

However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the ...

Syriac [Assyrian] parliamentarians Isa Kahraman and Yusuf Aydin, each in their own political arena, have expressed their deep concern about the situation of Christians in Syria following the suicide ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

Militias target Alawites . Rights groups reported widespread revenge killings as militants from Syria’s Sunni majority targeted Alawites, regardless of whether they were involved in the insurgency.

Minutes to Leave: Syria's Alawites Evicted From Private Homes at Gunpoint By Amina Ismail DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Early one evening in late January, 12 masked men stormed the Damascus home of Um ...