Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday urged insurgents from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority to lay ...

After Syria's longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

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 ...