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 ...

The latest killings have included a campaign against Syria's Alawites, which was triggered by an attack on new government ...

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 ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...