Over 1,200 Alawites killed in Syria’s Mediterranean coast amid post-Assad violence, raising sectarian tensions.

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

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

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...

Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...

Over 1,200 dead as ‘mass killing’ of Alawites continues despite Syrian leader’s call for peace - Sharaa's government urged to ...

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

The violence broke out on Thursday, three months after the insurgent-led government seized power, bringing an end to Assad’s ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syrian security forces deployed heavily in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on March 8, ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, ...