The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, ...

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

They are thrilled at the death of the Alawites, the same tribe from which came the Assad family. Western governments ostensibly should have demanded fair trials for any Alawite who was involved in the ...

Greece has been deeply alarmed over the renewed violence that broke out in Syria last week, in which over 1,000 people are ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

DUBAI (Reuters) -A Syrian military operation against loyalists of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad has been completed, ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said 1,130 people were killed in clashes, including 830 ...