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 ...
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 choosing between existence and extinction. This narrative, and the fear of ...
How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...
Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...
1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...
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 ...
Bulent Kuş hopes the Sunni Muslims won’t harm the Alawites now they are in control of Syria - Bradley Secker In the Turkish coastal town Samandag, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has met ...
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 ...