Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions ...

A surge in the abductions of Alawite women across Syria’s coastal provinces is reviving dark memories of Daesh's (ISIS or ISIL) brutality, as HTS militants deploy intimidation and ransom tactics once ...

By Maggie Michael DAMASCUS (Reuters) -"Don't wait for her," the WhatsApp caller told the family of Abeer Suleiman on May 21, hours after she vanished from the streets of the Syrian town of Safita.

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

Syrian Culture Minister Mohammed Yassin Saleh has ignited condemnation after appearing to call Alawites either criminals or ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to protect minorities.

Suleiman is among at least 33 women and girls from Syria's Alawite sect - aged between 16 and 39 - who have been abducted or gone missing this year in the turmoil following the fall of Bashar al ...

Thirty-three women and girls from Syria's Alawite sect have been abducted or gone missing this year in the turmoil following the fall of Bashar al-Assad.