A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

AMMAN - More than fifteen people were killed and dozens injured in Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida in the latest bout of sectarian clashes between Druze gunmen and Bedouin Sunni tribes, ...

Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, ...

Reuters spoke with over 200 families of victims during visits to massacre sites and by phone, 40 security officials, fighters ...

Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to protect minorities ...

Alawites make up about 10% of Syria’s population of 24 million, living mostly along the country’s Mediterranean coast and nearby hilly countryside.

Assad’s fall sparked joy for many Syrians, but it also triggered wariness from his religious sect, the Alawites, a Shiite offshoot that makes up around 10% of the population.Alawites served as ...

Alawites took many of the top positions in government and the military and ran big businesses. They now accuse supporters of Sharaa, who once ran an al Qaeda affiliate, of systematically abusing ...

Alawites are an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and they make up around 12 percent of the Syrian population. But with the Assad family in charge for more than four decades, ...

Though Alawites never uniformly supported Assad, their fear of an increasingly radicalized opposition stops them from breaking with the regime in significant numbers, analysts say.

Most Alawites do indeed fear that, if the Assad regime falls, they will face reprisals from the country’s majority Sunnis, who have led the rebellion against the government since March 2011.