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

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

Former regime fighters tell the BBC they want to regain civilian status and had nothing to do with atrocities.

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting preexisting divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.

Saudi Arabia supported various ultra-conservative groups during Syria’s civil war, including Jaysh al-Islam, created with the ...

Assad's fall, the actions of Islamist rebels Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham toward Syria's minorities are closely scrutinized. Tim ...

Their differing ambitions—revival of the Ottoman Empire vs. restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate—place them on a potential collision course.

Despite expectations that Syria’s various minorities, from the Assad-aligned Alawites to Syrian Christians, Druze and others would resist an Islamist group’s offensive, the entire political ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis held a phone conversation discussing the ...

"Since they were civil, not criminal court judges, I think they were killed simply because they were Alawites. All Alawites did not benefit from Bashar al-Assad. Those who worked for the regime ...