But the ruthless domination of Syria by Alawites for the next 58 years caused the country's majority Sunni Muslim population in 2011 to rebel, leading to a full-scale civil war that ended in December ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria fear the Middle Eastern nation has traded one oppressor for another since ...

Dr. Rasha Alawieh said she follows their religious teachings, not their politics. But what do we really know about Hassan ...

Massacres, often ignored or forgotten by the outside world but not by their victims, are one of the great driving forces of ...

and restructured the government under predominantly Shia leadership, disproportionately affecting Sunnis. Alawites also look to al-Sharaa’s government for protection against active radicals in ...

The UN human rights office has verified the killing of 111 civilians in the coastal region, but says the actual figure is far ...

"We want the rule of law, and we want to be citizens, not Sunni or Shia or Alawi. We want to be citizens in a normal state," Abu Abdullah ... After the U.S. and Russia also jointly submitted a request ...

an offshoot of Shia Islam whose adherents live mainly in the western coastal region. Sajid Allah Al-Deek, a security official in the coastal region, told The Associated Press that security forces ...

According to the reports, there are more than a thousand people who were killed, more than 770 civilians and unarmed fighters, many of whom are Alawite, and there are also Sunni. The clashes ...

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that Secretary-General António Guterres ... footage surfaced of what appeared to be retaliatory attacks targeting the broader minority Alawite community ...

Assad belonged to this sect, and under his rule, Syria's majority Sunni Muslims faced many atrocities ... While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and ...

The interim government is made up of members of Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir ... Since the fall of Assad, the flow had begun to reverse, with the U.N. reporting that nearly 260,000 Syrian ...