Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

Messages from survivors of the sectarian violence in which over 1,500 civilians were killed describe methodical carnage, ...

The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his ...

When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean ...

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

Our Syria correspondents travelled to the country's western coastal province of Latakia, which was the scene of the shocking ...

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad ...

Alawites were targeted in door-to-door massacres after a clash between fighters from Syria’s old regime and new government ...

"The fighting took place in the villages of Latakia, where Alawites coexist with Orthodox Christians. On the road outside the ...