Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

Former regime fighters tell the BBC they want to regain civilian status and had nothing to do with atrocities.

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...

Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the ...

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

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in Syria over a video showing an attack on an Alawite shrine, with a war monitor saying ...

Syria's new rebel-led authorities say supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops ...

On December 8, 2024, jihadist forces led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized power, creating new threats to the rights and lives of Christians, Alawites and other minorities.

The Alawites’ concerns are twofold: They are afraid of a possible reckoning by rebels on the grounds of their presumed identification with the Assad regime, and they are worried about ...

As thousands celebrate the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad in Umayyad Square in central Damascus every day, many Syrian ...

Although members of the Christian community said they are happy to see the Assad regime go, many are wary of their new ...

A tense calm prevailed after checkpoints were set up throughout the country’s third-largest city, which has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites and Christians. The security ...