The Alawites are a minority esoteric sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Between 10-12% of Syrians currently belong to the ...

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

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

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

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...

Assad’s regime, the status of minorities and their future is among the most crucial questions. Although many people have ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

Assad Syria, the Alawite community, long associated with the fallen regime, faces deepening insecurity and sectarian anxiety.

Syrian new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa recently met with the Mideast nation's Christian leadership after a string of menacing ...

Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of ...

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting preexisting divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.