A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to ...

Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, ...

Many Alawites believe Syria’s new authorities won’t risk civil conflict by cracking down on the factions that perpetrated sectarian violence and other human rights violations.

Alawites make up about 10% of Syria’s population of 24 million, living mostly along the country’s Mediterranean coast and nearby hilly countryside.

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

Since Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in December, hundreds of Alawites have been forced from their private homes in Damascus by the security forces, according to Syrian officials ...

A Close-Up Of Syria's Alawites, Loyalists Of A Troubled Regime A director spent a year filming the Alawite community in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous, where many believe President Bashar ...

Until the French arrived in Syria in 1920, the Alawites were locked in the coastal mountains of Syria. And the Alawites used to be the lowest of the low. They were the poorest Syrians, uneducated.

“In my opinion, ninety per cent of Alawites join the Army for economic reasons, not because they love Bashar or because they love Syria,” Saleh, a thirty-three-year-old Alawite from Homs, told ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Syria’s Minority Alawites, Favored by the Assads, Look Nervously to the Future .

Since Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in December, hundreds of Alawites have been forced from their private homes in Damascus by the security forces, according to Syrian officials ...