The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

The State Department voiced cautious optimism over the new cabinet, which includes members of Syria’s Christian, Alawite, ...

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The euphoria of Syria's new dawn has turned to violence. Alleged massacres of minority Alawites have sent a fresh wave of refugees into neighboring Lebanon.

Weeks after sectarian revenge killings, a religious minority reckons with what happened and the possibility of a united Syria ...

The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his ...

Many Alawites still recall one incident of reprisal ... “The main perpetrators are [two nominally state aligned] armed groups … who joined the security forces. The security forces also ...

"Alawites, like Christians and other minorities ... in Tartus Central Prison and was imprisoned solely because of the state of emergency law. He narrowly escaped death in July 1983, during ...

The Assad crimes led them to harbor feelings of hatred towards the Alawites. Salafist jihadist groups such as Al-Nusra and Daesh [Arabic acronym for the Islamic State organization] and their ...

“The brutal massacre of the Shia Muslim Alawites and other minorities is shocking,” said Dr Abraham Mathai, former Vice-Chairman of Maharashtra State Minorities Commission. He said the ...

In the city of Kobani in northern Syria, residents said the attacks against Alawites in western Syria were reminiscent of Islamic State atrocities against Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq, and Syrian Kurds ...

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, told Reuters that the massacres of members of the Alawite community were ... "Syria is a state of law, and the law applies to everyone," al-Shara declared.