However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the ...

Thirty-three women and girls from Syria's Alawite sect have been abducted or gone missing this year in the turmoil following ...

President Donald Trump lied to Americans during the 2016 Election, claiming that he thinks Assad in Syria is a 'bad guy.' ...

When the dust settled, the March massacre claimed the lives of at least 1,700 Alawites. Ziad, currently in Lebanon and ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Damascus last month. Syria was exempted from President Trump’s latest travel ban, a sign of a seismic shift in U.S. foreign policy following the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad in December.

Barring farmers from fields and closing roads, Israel tightens its grip on Syrian borderlands. Israel incursions began in December when longtime Syrian leader Bashar Assad was overthrown. “We ...

Syrian-French Director Anas Khalaf Unveils Post-Bashar Al-Assad Feel-Good Tennis Drama ‘Love-45’ With ... he wants to return to Syria but faces opposition from his now 15-year-old daughter, ...

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment and torture. Skip to main content Open Mega Menu ...

Syria after Assad: why many Syrian refugees aren’t returning home Published: March 24 ... is a schoolteacher living in Zaatari camp with her husband and four-year-old daughter.

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during the war are now seeking information on their fate. NPR investigates.

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.