After Sunnis, which comprise 70% of Syria’s population, the Alawite is the largest sect in the country. President Ahmed al-Sharaa views Alawites as ‘remnants of Assad’s regime’ and holds them responsi ...

Latest reports indicate that 250 armed supporters of the country's former leader have been killed since the situation ...

At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...

Interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa accuses Assad loyalists and foreign powers of fomenting unrest with aim of dragging country ...

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

Sharaa’s forces kill hundreds of civilians from minority Alawite community following ambush by insurgents loyal to ousted ...

Syria's new leader has vowed accountability and an investigation after reports of mass killings of Alawite civilians ...

Rihab Kamel and her family hid terrified in their bathroom in the city of Baniyas as armed men stormed the neighbourhood, ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring ...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that more than 1,000 people had been killed in two days ...

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa has promised accountability and an independent investigation after reports of mass ...

Syria's new leader vows accountability after mass killings, sparking international backlash against worst violence since ...