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

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 ...

The meandering roads through Latakia, Syria’s Alawite heartland, feel deceptively calm. In March they were the scene of massacres by pro-government forces in which more than 1,500 people were killed ...

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 ...