UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has urged restraint in Syria, amid reports that some individuals from the country’s Alawite community and other minority groups have been targeted and killed.

Sham (HTS) terrorist group has launched a crackdown on a minority group in Homs after recent protests against HTS who seized ...

As thousands celebrate the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad in Umayyad Square in central Damascus every day, many Syrian ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Recent days have seen sectarian tensions in Syria between the majority Sunni community and Alawites, the non-Muslim sect that ruled Syria for the past 54 years. But who are ...