Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...

Local television reports that the country's president has ordered the creation of an independent commission to investigate ...

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

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

The UK on Monday slammed unfounded Russia's expulsion of a British diplomat and the spouse of another envoy accused by Moscow ...