GENEVA: Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of a series of sectarian ...

Now in Lebanon, many of the displaced Alawis say they refuse to return to Syria for the time being, despite the situation ...

Once again there is horror on the Syrian coast. The fighting began on Thursday, in the new government’s telling, after a ...

Shock and outrage are appropriate, but no one really has an excuse for being surprised at the dreadful scenes that have ...

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

Hundreds of people were killed and residents of Syria’s coastal governorates are scared to leave home. The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

The Alawite religious sect, from which Bashar al-Assad hails ... with Banias and Jableh lying between them. These two Alawi-majority governorates have long been considered al-Assad strongholds ...