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 ...
The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...
Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...
In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...
About 10 percent of Syrians belong to the sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and Alawites dominated the ruling class and upper ranks of the military under the Assad dynasty. As the country emerges ...
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.
KHIRBET AL-HAMMAM, Syria — Violence came roaring into this village in western Syria last week, when war was supposed to have receded. Munitions fired by former rebels tore through homes, killed ...
For decades the Alawites had prospered by supporting the Assad family, but thirteen years of civil war had meant heavy losses for the Alawites and that was blamed on misrule by the Assads. The Assad ...
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 ...
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 ...