The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

The investigation, released by Reuters, uncovers the divide between the two Islamic sects in Syria, a polarization that ...

However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the ...

LATAKIA, Syria -A Reuters investigation pieced together how the March 7-9 massacres of Syrian Alawites along the country’s ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -"Don't wait for her," the WhatsApp caller told the family of Abeer Suleiman on May 21, hours after she ...

A little-known armed group called Saraya Ansar al-Sunna has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a Damascus church ...

Syria expert Fabrice Balanche (left) highlights the concentration of Alawites living along the coast, where the massacres ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

A pro-Assad uprising in early March in Syria’s coastal regions was the first test of the country's tenuous unity.

Alawites celebrating in Baniyas, Syria. Credit: Frank Hurley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Alawites, also known as Nusayris, are a religious minority primarily found in Syria, Lebanon and ...