This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

That, Alawites say now, shouldn’t mean collective ... “They would harass us,” said Ahmed Saad Aldeen, who came to the Umayyad Mosque from the city of Homs. “You go out ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean ...

One imam at a mosque in Damascus denounced the alleged attack on security forces by Assad’s Alawite loyalists and called for Sunnis to take up arms against their sectarian enemies in a sermon ...

Religious minority group Alawites, who have been the target of the ongoing revenge killings in Syria, narrated the ordeal of being a witness to the bl.

The violence is in the heartland of the Alawite minority to which Assad belongs ... in this country,” Sharaa said from a Damascus mosque. The fighting has also killed 231 members of the security ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa called for peace on Sunday following widespread communal violence between the country's Sunni Muslim majority and Alawites accused of supporting the deposed ...

“God willing, we will be able to live together in this country,” he said at a mosque in Damascus. But in villages and towns on the coast, people spoke of systematic killings. Assad, himself an Alawite ...

"We as Alawites are innocent ... "God willing, we will be able to live together in this country," he said at a mosque in Damascus. But in villages and towns on the coast, people spoke of ...