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

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

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

It is naive to assume that the current regime in Syria will remain in place — as it is — going forward. Syria is now in a ...

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

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

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

According to the new Syrian interior minister, remnants of the previous regime were killed by forces loyal to the new ...

especially in areas where Alawites live, since jihadists led by the HTS took power. After two churches and a patriarchate were reportedly attacked, on December 18, in Hama, central Syria, masked and ...

Three-quarters of Syria’s 23 million citizens are Sunnis, one-tenth are Alawites, and the rest are a mix of Christians, Ismaili Shiites and Druze. Under Assad, Syrians enjoyed religious and ...

Footage began to circulate online Monday showing flames at the base of an artificial Christmas tree in the mostly Christian ...

Syria’s population is predominantly Arab and Sunni Muslim, but minority communities have long been part of the region. Alawites, a Shiite sect and one of the largest minority groups, constitute about ...