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

Members of former ruling minority say Sunni vengeance against ousted regime has continued, as tens of thousands flee to ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

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

Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings ...

All told, despite sectarian divisions, Syrians are surprisingly upbeat. Except for Alawites, three-quarters of whom want ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

The fall of the Assad government last year has brought little relief for Syria’s Alawite community. Instead, the minority group has become the target of brutal revenge attacks, with over 1,700 people ...

According to human rights groups, more than 1,000 civilians — mostly Alawites, an Islamic minority to which Assad belongs — were killed in retaliatory attacks, including home raids ...