A UN commission found war crimes were "likely" committed by former regime fighters and interim government force members in ...

In retaliation, militias affiliated with the newly formed government in Damascus carried out indiscriminate killings of Alawites. While exact figures remain difficult to verify, more than 1,300 ...

Syria's interim government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa was likely guilty of war crimes during sectarian violence that culminated ...

A UN commission investigating sectarian bloodshed in Syria's Alawite heartland documented systematic violence at the hands of ...

Alawites served as the backbone of the former government's military and intelligence command, but as a new Syria takes shape, the country's largest minority group is struggling with its ...

Representatives from Syria's ethnic and religious groups have called for a decentralized state and a new constitution ensuring pluralism.

Since Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in December, hundreds of Alawites have been forced from their private homes in Damascus by the security forces, according to Syrian officials ...

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. There was euphoria in December, when ...

The Alawites refuse to be annexed to Muslim Syria because, in Syria, the official religion of the state is Islam, and according to Islam, the Alawites are considered infidels. . . .

Most Alawites do indeed fear that, if the Assad regime falls, they will face reprisals from the country’s majority Sunnis, who have led the rebellion against the government since March 2011.

-- Not all Alawites support the Assad dynasty and only a few have profited from Assad's rule, with many living in poverty in Syria's central mountains. The sect extends north to the Turkish city ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -War crimes were likely committed by interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to Syria's ...