How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

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

After the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Syria, several attacks on the country’s Alawite and Christian ...

Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...

Others demanded that Syria's newly appointed authorities act in a non-sectarian way, without prejudice against the country's Alawites. "No to burning holy places and religious discrimination.

Ahmed al-Sharaa is hoping to convince the world that he's left his jihadist past behind, but FM Gideon Sa'ar and other senior ...

Although members of the Christian community said they are happy to see the Assad regime go, many are wary of their new ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...

The violence in Tartous province marks the deadliest challenge yet to the Islamist-led authorities which swept Bashar ...

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