UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...

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

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

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

Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.

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

Deposed leader's minority sect now gripped by uncertainty and worry over reprisals from country's other 90%, amid looming risk of Muslim extremism ...

Sham (HTS) terrorist group has launched a crackdown on a minority group in Homs after recent protests against HTS who seized ...

Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the ...