Eighty percent of Israelis see Turkey as a threat. Yet only about 6% name the actors best positioned to check it. That gap is ...

A former Assad brigadier-general for the elite Quwwat al-Nimr unit, Suheil al-Hassan, is among those allegedly implicated in ...

Rami Makhlouf said an Alawite sheikh’s demand for federalism was leading the once-dominant minority community ‘down a very dangerous path’ ...

Syrian security forces imposed a curfew on Latakia city, a bastion of the country’s Alawite minority, state media reported on Tuesday, days after four people were killed in protests that spiralled ...

A program that offers amnesty and aid to Alawites has been met with suspicion by many in the minority. There is also broader ...

Khairallah Dib, an Alawite, emerged from hiding after an insurrection against Syria's new rulers. Amidst conflict and complex loyalties, Dib and other Alawites received amnesty as part of a government ...

Syria's new Islamist-led government has extended amnesty and aid to Alawite communities in an effort to rebuild ties after a ...

Members of Syria's Alawite minority protested in their thousands on December 28, days after an attack on an Alawite mosque ...

LATAKIA, Syria -- Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and ...

Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday in the rain and cold outside of a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs for the funeral of ...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Rights groups say the attacks on Alawite women appear to be the acts of individuals, not systematic. But rights workers and victims say Syria's new authorities are not doing ...