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

The report, which focused on violence against Syria’s Alawite communities along the Mediterranean coast in March, uncovered ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

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

More than 400 Kurdish and minority representatives met for a unity conference in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava) on Friday ...

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 ...

The Alawites are a small, historically oppressed people, whose political future will determine whether Syria remains united in some form or disintegrates into even smaller ethnic and religious ...

The Alawites, who began centuries ago as a religious movement that some people of Western Syria chose to join, became an ethnic group, a development not uncommon in the Middle East.

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

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 are a Shiite sect and are a small minority in Syria but they hold outsized power. President Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite.

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -War crimes were likely committed by interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to ...