A sectarian-fueled killing spree exposed how fragile peace is in Syria, where the government’s control is limited and tension runs deep after nearly 14 years of civil war.

It has been a month since a brutal mass killing shocked Syria. Hundreds of civilians belonging to Syrian minority groups lost ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met on Thursday in Qatar with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the first ...

Despite their small number, the Bektashis are set to form the world’s newest country — a first-of-its-kind Islamic microstate ...

The White House has issued a clarification on the explosive 245% tariff targeting Chinese imports. The new addendum reveals a ...

A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are ...

Who are the Alawites, and when did they emerge? The Alawites began to take shape around the 10th century within the broader Shia world. Following the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 ...

The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated ...

The massacres of Alawites were thus not only political acts—they were profoundly religious ones. The current Syrian authority projects itself through two parallel narratives. The first is a ...

Hundreds of Alawite civilians have fled to Lebanon from the villages in the former stronghold of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, fearing death if they return.

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in coastal and central regions, after massacres earlier ...

Syria's new president said those responsible for the killings would be punished, but many Alawites said they did not believe that would happen. Qassem* lies on a stretcher in a vacant flat in ...