A woman from Syria's Alawite minority has spoken about her harrowing experience of being kidnapped and raped by gunmen ...

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

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.

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

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

OP-ED. As Syria opens a trial for the massacres carried out in March against the Alawite community, Syrian journalist and novelist Samar Yazbek recounts the abuses suffered by thousands since the fall ...

Jubilant crowds thronged the streets of the capital, many people waving Syrian flags, AFP correspondents said, after mosques ...

Thousands of Syria’s Alawite minority have protested against what they say is discrimination by the new government.

The West’s unconditional rehabilitation of Ahmed al-Shara has come too swiftly for Syria’s minority communities.