The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

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

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

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.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...

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 ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new authorities comb their districts for "remnants of the regime", arresting ...

Security forces under Syria's new authorities check the identification of a man in Homs — OMAR HAJ KADOUR In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community ...