LATAKIA, Syria -- Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and ...

A program that offers amnesty and aid to Alawites has been met with suspicion by many in the minority. There is also broader ...

Fear still grips Syria’s coast. After weeks in hiding, Khairallah Dib emerged only after assurances of amnesty. An Alawite ...

Members of Syria's Alawite minority protested in their thousands on December 28, days after an attack on an Alawite mosque ...

Syria's new Islamist-led government has extended amnesty and aid to Alawite communities in an effort to rebuild ties after a ...

At least three people were killed and dozens were injured in clashes Sunday between Alawites and protesters in western Syria, ...

The meandering roads through Latakia, Syria’s Alawite heartland, feel deceptively calm. In March they were the scene of massacres by pro-government forces in which more than 1,500 people were killed ...

From exile in Moscow, ex-intel chief Kamal Hassan and Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf are spending millions of dollars in competing efforts to build fighting forces that would lead a revolt along Syria’s ...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Rights groups say the attacks on Alawite women appear to be the acts of individuals, not systematic. But rights workers and victims say Syria's new authorities are not doing ...

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 ...