Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces ... His rise brought to power the minority Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam that had been marginalised by the Sunni ...

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS)-led atrocities and Alawite militias escalate attacks on HTS-affiliated groups ...

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

As sectarian tensions rise in Syria following the collapse of the Assad regime, a minority sect fears for its future amid calls for mass slaughter. The feeling is a new one for the Alawites ...

After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure minorities in multi-ethnic multi-confessional Syria that they will be protected.

all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland. After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure ...

The boys "were supposed to finish school this year", she said quietly. Alawites account for about nine percent of Syria's population, or around 1.7 million people. The community has been ...