Tim Franks speaks to a British-Syrian Alawite who came under attack, along with her family, during the sectarian violence on Syria’s coast in March. The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam and ...

AP The shocking death toll has skyrocketed from original estimates of about 200. Alawite people told the Associated Press that, in addition to the killings, many of their homes were looted and ...

Alsaloum speaks with urgency and precision. A former Syrian intelligence analyst and now director of a global human ...

The violence has taken the lives of over 1,000 people. More than 700 civilians from the Alawite minority have died, including women and children. The government is trying to restore order and ...

Videos geolocated by CNN showed dozens of dead bodies lying on the ground in the village of Al Mukhtareyah as people mourned. “These are the Alawite pigs,” a voice is heard saying before ...

The Alawites were always a peaceful people.” B. is a doctor from the tiny Alawite community in Israel. “We are a very small community. Our religion believes in humanity. We hold that there is ...

with many people shot at close range. Part of the issue has been the involvement of other armed groups, who have sought to punish the Alawite sect for their previous support of the former regime.

Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.

During the killings in early March, about 8,000 people — most of them Alawite families — sought shelter in Russia’s Khmeimim Airbase, six miles south of Al-Sanobar, according to Russian ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers and fighters from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect in the ...

More than 250 Alawite fighters were killed and more than ... which would be tasked with communicating with the people of the coast and providing them with the support they needed to guarantee ...