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 ...
In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...
The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...
Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...
Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...
Syria's Alawites are living in fear following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to the Washington Post ...
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 ...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...