The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

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.

Despite the rhetoric of HTS leaders about tolerance for minorities, there’s more developing behind the scenes than is being ...

Syria's Alawites are living in fear following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to the Washington Post this week. During his rule, Assad recruited many Alawites as military ...

Sham (HTS) terrorist group has launched a crackdown on a minority group in Homs after recent protests against HTS who seized ...

But Alawites fear a backlash against their sect, long associated with the Assads. The new authorities deny wrongdoing, saying they are after former Assad forces. Shihadi Mayhoub, a former lawmaker ...

KHIRBET AL-MA’ZAH, Syria—When Sunni Islamist rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime, many residents of this rural village were elated by the end of a half-century of oppression even though ...