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The latest killings have included a campaign against Syria's Alawites, which was triggered by an attack on new government ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday that he had proposed at a European Union meeting ...

Residents of the Syria's Alawite heartland have begun trickling back to their homes after fleeing sectarian killings in the ...

Iraq's Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry has dismissed a Sunni academic for inciting sectarian strife after he posted comments online in support of the recent mass killings of Alawites ...

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

A people who shaped Turkish literature through their poets, performed their worship in Turkish, and preserved their language, ...

AL-MASSAOUDIYE — Sara (a pseudonym) wore a fuzzy rainbow jacket, her blue rubber sandals caked in thick mud as she trudged up ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

In a district of Baniyas, executions perpetrated against Alawites by Sunni factions caused around 100 deaths. A man in his ...

Following the recent attacks carried out against civilians in the Alawite-majority region in Syria’s coastal region, many ...

The agreement between the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, and the interim president of Syria, Ahmed ...