The BBC hears harrowing accounts of assaults appearing to target the sect of former President Assad.

BEIRUT – In the recent sectarian violence in Syria, some observers see a grim pattern: Alawite fighters from President Bashar Assad's minority sect, they say, are trying to carve out a breakaway ...

Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday across Syria's coastal Alawite heartland in protest at recent attacks targeting the minority community, AFP correspondents said. The protests are the ...

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, Nour al-Din al-Baba, stated that the disappearances ranged from “voluntary elopement with a romantic partner” to “temporary absence at friends’ or ...

A country in transition is judged by who feels able to stay.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Alawite Syrians, who fled the violence in western Syria, walk in the water of Nahr El Kabir River, in Akkar DAMASCUS ...

(Reuters) -More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers and fighters from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect in ...

LATAKIA, Syria – Three people were killed on Sunday when protests in Syria’s Alawite heartland of Latakia spiralled into gunfire and other violence, according to the province’s media office. Syria has ...

Protests erupted in Syria in areas dominated by the Alawite minority after video spread of militants desecrating an Alawite shrine. Alawites are widely seen as loyal to the former Assad regime.

At least four people have been killed in clashes on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counter-demonstrators. The violence came two days after a bombing at an ...

BEIRUTBEIRUT — In the recent sectarian violence in Syria, some observers see a grim pattern: Alawite fighters from President Bashar Assad’s minority sect, they say, are trying to carve out a breakaway ...