Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation between diverse sects. This is a three-part series about the Alawite sect in ...

Raids targeting Alawite community took place in early March in Damascus, witnesses say Witnesses report masked men detaining more than 2 dozen Alawites in al-Qadam neighbourhood Human Rights Watch ...

Syrian Alawites, linked by religion with deposed president Assad, make surprising use of biblical characters. This is a three-part series about the Alawite sect in Syria and the March massacre in its ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days. The attack ...

After Assad's ouster, Arab Alawites, seen as supporters of the regime, have become targets. Those who left their homeland and came to Turkey are concerned about being invisible. The civil war that ...