LATAKIA, Syria -A Reuters investigation pieced together how the March 7-9 massacres of Syrian Alawites along the country’s ...

Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, ...

The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

LATAKIA, Syria -On January 29, Ahmed al-Sharaa and more than 12 other commanders from armed factions that joined forces to ...

However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to ...

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGESFor three days in March, Syrian Alawites were killed by the hundreds.We knew we needed to ...

The investigation, released by Reuters, uncovers the divide between the two Islamic sects in Syria, a polarization that ...

Groups linked to the new Syrian government were reportedly responsible for massacring roughly 1,500 Alawites in Northern ...

Alawites now whisper of vigilante attacks and neighbors forced to flee their homes at gunpoint. Across social media, activist groups have cropped up claiming to document sectarian score-settling ...

Alawites and other Syrians from coastal areas are fleeing into Lebanon through unofficial border crossings, some carrying babies and helping tired elderly people and pregnant women as they cross ...