Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

A religious minority in Syria, the Alawite sect makes up 12% of the country's population, whose majority belongs to the Sunni ...

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 ...

The clashes raise concerns about Syria’s stability and interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s ability to reunify the country after 13 years of civil war.

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...

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

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...