The woman, a member of Syria 's Alawite religious minority, was walking home on a sunny July day in her town on the ...

The demonstrations followed unrest over the weekend in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, which set off reprisal attacks on Alawites, a community once favored by the ousted Assad regime.

OP-ED. As Syria opens a trial for the massacres carried out in March against the Alawite community, Syrian journalist and ...

T he meandering roads through Latakia, Syria’s Alawite heartland, feel deceptively calm. In March they were the scene of ...

A precarious calm returned to Syria’s central Homs province on Monday following a day of violent unrest triggered by the murder of a couple from a Bedouin tribe in the town of Zaydal.

The spiritual head of Israel's Druze community is calling on the United States to take action in support of minority rights.

DAMASCUS, Syria(AP) — Thousands of members of Syria’s Alawite minority sect demonstrated in the country’s central and coastal regions Tuesday against what they say are acts of discrimination by the ...

One year into his rule Syria's leader has won over Trump and much of the West, but at home people know his weaknesses.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of members of Syria’s Alawite minority sect demonstrated in the country’s central and coastal regions Tuesday against what they say are acts of discrimination by the ...