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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Alawites make up about 10% of Syria’s population of 24 million, living mostly along the country’s Mediterranean coast and nearby hilly countryside. They have long kept the details of their ...

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

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 ...

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.

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