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.

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

On Wednesday, rebels with the Islamist group that overthrew the regime, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), burned the tomb of ...

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

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

Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...

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 violence in Tartous province marks the deadliest challenge yet to the Islamist-led authorities which swept Bashar ...

Like many in Jableh, they are Alawites, a minority from which the Assad family descends. Syria latest: UK in 'diplomatic ...

“Bashar al-Assad was a protector of the Alawites,” said Bulent Kuş, 50, staring out at sea. “With him gone, we Alawites may face pressures.” “Now that the Sunni Muslims have come to ...