They are mostly Alawites, but also Christians. The Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, who is the head of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, responded: “The tragic events ...

Emily Wither meets Syrian Alawites that have fled to Lebanon to escape sectarian violence in the wake of the Assad regime’s fall in Syria. Show more In the wake of the Assad regime’s fall in ...

Since Islamist-led forces toppled Assad in December, Syria has seen extrajudicial killings and bloody attacks on minority groups, including Alawites and deadly clashes involving the Druze community.

The video report, published on France 24’s website, highlights a worrying increase in the number of Syrian women of Alawite origin being kidnapped in Tartus and its rural areas following the collapse ...

A monitor said Thursday that three members of Syria's Alawite minority were killed and property torched during a security operation a day earlier in the coastal province of Latakia. Provincial ...

Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims clambered up rocks and nestled between boulders on Thursday as they embarked on a day of worship under a scorching sun at the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. Braving the ...

Eight civilians from Syria’s Alawite minority were shot dead by "security checkpoint personnel" on Wednesday in the central province of Hama, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Five men from Syria’s Alawite minority were found dead in hospital two days after being detained by security forces, a war monitor said Wednesday, alleging they had been “summarily executed ...

Five men from Syria's Alawite minority were found dead in a Damascus hospital two days after being detained by security forces, a war monitor said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ...

In Syria, Alawite women have become targets ... Price Tag Trump's Pentagon keeps sending destroyers that fought in the Red Sea to the US southern border — a fourth one is on its way What ...

Five men belonging to Syria’s minority Alawite community have been found dead at a hospital, two days after security forces stopped the van they were travelling in and arrested them, the Syrian ...