The demonstrations followed unrest over the weekend in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, which set off reprisal attacks on Alawites, a community once favored by the ousted Assad regime.

A woman from Syria's Alawite minority has spoken about her harrowing experience of being kidnapped and raped by gunmen ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Thousands of members of Syria’s Alawite minority sect demonstrated in the country’s central and coastal regions Tuesday against what they say are acts of discrimination by the new ...

Early Monday morning in Aleppo, soldiers lined the streets near the old city walls, standing in loose formation beside ...