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

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

After tacitly recognizing the new Syrian government mostly led by representatives of the Islamist Hay at Tahrir al-Sham HTS ...

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

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

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

Deposed leader's minority sect now gripped by uncertainty and worry over reprisals from country's other 90%, amid looming risk of Muslim extremism ...

The Alawites feared retribution, and for good reason. The Alawites used terror to maintain power for decades. Most Syrians have good reason to hate the Alawites, as well as all those who have ...

As thousands celebrate the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad in Umayyad Square in central Damascus every day, many Syrian Alawites say concerns over the future of their country make them remain ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century of authoritarian rule ...

On December 8, 2024, jihadist forces led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized power, creating new threats to the rights and lives of Christians, Alawites and other minorities.

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