The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...
Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor and an attendee said.
Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...
How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...
Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...
Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.
In Syria’s Alawite heartland, the story of Zarda Khadour mirrors the plight of countless others. A retired cook from Masyaf, she spent 30 years working at a chi ...
Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.
As thousands celebrate the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad in Umayyad Square in central Damascus every day, many Syrian ...
On Wednesday, rebels with the Islamist group that overthrew the regime, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), burned the tomb of Assad’s father, Hafez, who ruled Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. The ...