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 violence since his fall.

Syria's president has granted a three-month extension to an investigation into last month's sectarian killings of Alawite ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Alawites from Syria's western coast were killed when Syrian security forces responded to attacks from groups linked to the country's former dictatorship.

In early March, Islamist-led forces killed over 1,000 civilians - most of them Alawites - in coordinated assaults on coastal areas including Latakia and Baniyas, carrying out executions and ...

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 ...