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.

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 ...

Recent days have seen sectarian tensions in Syria between the majority Sunni community and Alawites, the non-Muslim sect that ruled Syria for the past 54 years. But who are the Alawites and what ...

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 ...

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are ...

Assad's recent ouster, ethnic Syrian Alawites have found themselves increasingly anxious over the future under HTS rule, ...