More than 1,400 people died in March in attacks on security forces and subsequent mass killings of Alawites, a Syrian fact-finding committee said on Tuesday. However, it concluded that commanders had ...

The demonstrations followed unrest over the weekend in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, which set off reprisal attacks on Alawites, a community once favored by the ousted Assad regime.

For three days in March, Syrian Alawites were killed by the hundreds. We knew we needed to investigate what happened. :: December 2024 Many in Syria’s new government saw Alawites as deserving revenge ...

T he meandering roads through Latakia, Syria’s Alawite heartland, feel deceptively calm. In March they were the scene of ...

On March 6, armed groups began entering Alawite villages in western Syria and killing the residents. On March 7, a local woman wrote to her friend abroad: “They killed four families here, women and ...

Thousands of Syria’s Alawite minority have protested against what they say is discrimination by the new government.

The protests in the coastal Alawite heartland were some of the biggest since Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara came to power a year ago. The rebel offensive he led toppled the government of Bashar Al ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller attacks ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In July 2025, clashes between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Arabs backed by government-affiliated forces led to hundreds of deaths in Sweida province in southern Syria.

The euphoria of Syria's new dawn has turned to violence. Alleged massacres of minority Alawites have sent a fresh wave of refugees into neighboring Lebanon. There was euphoria in December, when ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of members of Syria’s Alawite minority sect demonstrated in the country’s central and coastal regions Tuesday against what they say are acts of discrimination by the ...