Syrian Alawites, linked by religion with deposed president Assad, make surprising use of biblical characters. This is a three-part series about the Alawite sect in Syria and the March massacre in its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People from the Alawite sect protest as they demand federalism and an end to what they say is the killing and violations against ...

One Alawite survivor turned off the lights. One was too heavy to kidnap. One quickly showed a surprising ID. This is a three-part series about the Alawite sect in Syria and the March massacre in its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of Syrian forces stands on a military truck in Latakia DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian security forces battled for a second ...

BEIRUT (AP) – In the recent sectarian violence in Syria, some observers see a grim pattern: Alawite fighters from President Bashar Assad’s minority sect, they say, are trying to carve out a breakaway ...

In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling ...

The Alawite sect of Shiite Islam thrived under the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, though it accounts for only 10% of the nation's population. Assad himself is Alawite, and he surrounded himself ...

LATAKIA, Syria — Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counter-demonstrators on Sunday, two days after a bombing at an Alawite mosque in the ...

Explosion at Alawite Mosque in Syria's Homs Kills Eight DAMASCUS, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Eight people were killed ‌in an explosion at a mosque ‌of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on ...

Syria's new government is struggling to impose order in a country where some are settling scores. Sunni Arab fighters have killed members of the same religious sect as the deposed president. Now to ...

Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led government ...