Foreign-backed Takfiri militants have shot dead 19 civilians from the Alawite minority in their own homes after seizing their village in central Syria, a monitor says. Other villagers were kidnapped following the assault in which eight volunteer militiamen were killed trying to defend al-Zara in Hama province, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists in Syria say they are targeting members of the Alawite community in the country, adding that they massacred dozens of Alawites in threeHomsvillages last week. On Sunday, terrorist group Al-Nusra Front claimed responsibility for Tuesdays attacks in which at least 30 Alawites, including several women, children and elderly ...