The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.

A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller attacks since the star ...

The sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in Syria’s modern history, including the 14 years of civil ...

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”- Blaise Pascal Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime ...

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

Most members are Sunni Muslim, reflecting the demographic make-up of Syria, ruled for decades by the Assad clan which belongs to the Alawite minority. Amid international calls for an inclusive ...

Our village is mainly Alawite, and they wanted to kill us all," he said. "I was hit and I fell. Had they known I was not dead and only injured, they would have finished me. "Some people fled ...

Syria’s Alawite community has faced sectarian violence ... killing at least four people including the mukhtar, a 12-year-old and an 80-year-old from the same family. Kamal said he was citing ...