Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani's confirmation that Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara has been invited to the Arab ...

Despite their small number, the Bektashis are set to form the world’s newest country — a first-of-its-kind Islamic microstate ...

The White House has issued a clarification on the explosive 245% tariff targeting Chinese imports. The new addendum reveals a ...

A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are ...

Who are the Alawites, and when did they emerge? The Alawites began to take shape around the 10th century within the broader Shia world. Following the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 ...

The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.

Nikolas Farantouris had accused the EU High Representative of whitewashing the extremist Al-Jolani by not directly pointing ...

Syria's president has granted a three-month extension to an investigation into last month's sectarian killings of Alawite ...

"I was outdoors with my cows. I heard heavy gunfire from armed men. Those who kill and eliminate all Alawites. Our village is mainly Alawite, and they wanted to kill us all," he said. "I was hit ...

A monitor of Syria's conflict said 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed on Monday in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in coastal and central regions, after massacres earlier ...

In early March, Islamist-led forces killed over 1,000 civilians – most of them Alawites – in coordinated assaults on coastal areas including Latakia and Baniyas, carrying out executions and ...

Hundreds of Alawites from Syria's western coast were killed when Syrian security forces responded to attacks from groups linked to the country's former dictatorship.