Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

As thousands celebrate the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad in Umayyad Square in central Damascus every day, many Syrian ...

A tense calm prevailed after checkpoints were set up throughout the country’s third-largest city, which has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites and Christians. The security ...

Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar ...

They also demanded an end to the targeting of Alawites, the Observatory said. Eyewitnesses reported some injuries as security forces dispersed crowds, it added. The interim Interior Ministry ...

Although members of the Christian community said they are happy to see the Assad regime go, many are wary of their new ...

The fall of the Assad regime marks a turning point in Syria’s history. But it also opens a ‘chapter fraught with peril’ for ...

Syria’s de facto new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has tried to cast his leadership as one that will protect minorities, including ...