Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

ALBAWABA - Despite not being a new thing, social media users have been re-sharing videos of a new religion, called "The Ahmadi Religion," created by an ...

Although most of the thousand or so people reported killed in recent violence on the Syrian coast were Alawites — members of a Syrian religious minority which follows a branch of Shia'a Islam ...

The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...

14, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani listens during a meeting with President Joe ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered attacks on numerous targets in neighboring Lebanon on Saturday.