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

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

We visit the hometown of the ousted Syrian President, Bashir al-Assad. Qardaha lies in northwest Syria, considered the heartlands of the Alawite religious sect.

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.

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

KHIRBET AL-HAMMAM, Syria — Violence came roaring into this village in western Syria last week, when war was supposed to have receded. Munitions fired by former rebels tore through homes, killed ...

About 10 percent of Syrians belong to the sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and Alawites dominated the ruling class and upper ranks of the military under the Assad dynasty. As the country emerges ...

For decades the Alawites had prospered by supporting the Assad family, but thirteen years of civil war had meant heavy losses for the Alawites and that was blamed on misrule by the Assads. The Assad ...

This narrative, and the fear of Sunni extremist groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, kept many Alawites bound to Assad even as the cost became unbearable. With Assad gone ...

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 ...