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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People from the Alawite sect protest as they demand federalism and an end to what they say is the killing and violations against ...

AL-SOMARIA, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian security forces stormed the rundown Damascus suburb in late August, toting guns, swords and eviction orders. In their wake, they left the district's homes ...

Syrians since late November have been marking the first anniversary since Islamist-led forces pressed a lightning offensive to topple Assad on December 8 after nearly 14 years of war.

QARDAHA, Syria, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Khairallah Dib needed a promise of amnesty to come out of hiding. He had been lying low for weeks after Alawite fighters staged a March insurrection against Syria’s ...

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LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterdemonstrators on Sunday, two days after a bombing at an Alawite mosque in the ...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — The woman, a member of Syria ‘s Alawite religious minority, was walking home on a sunny July day in her town on the Mediterranean coast when three gunmen stopped her and pulled ...

An explosion killed at least eight worshippers at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria's Homs on Friday, state media said, with an Islamist militant group claiming responsibility. The ...

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 ...