Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS)-led atrocities and Alawite militias escalate attacks on HTS-affiliated groups ...

Following the incident, the Hama governorate police department imposed a ban on carrying weapons in public places ...

Hundreds of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham fighters poured into the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on Sunday in an ...

“Not just minorities – Christians, Alawites, Druze – but also quite a lot of Sunni Muslims in places like Damascus and Aleppo, where you have a fairly large secular, cosmopolitan population that’s not ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites are a minority sect which follows an esoteric offshoot of Shiite Islam.