Syria's interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

The sect has its roots in Shia Islam. The word Alawite means “follower of Ali,” the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ...

Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, ...

Violence is flaring across parts of western Syria, as forces of the self-styled Syrian transitional government have clashed with Alawite militias and ...

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...

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

Ten thousand members of the Alawite minority escaping sectarian violence in Syria have crossed into Lebanon over the past ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

Clashes between Assad loyalists and the country's new Islamist rulers in the former president's coastal heartland have killed ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

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