Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the community's fears and desires to stay in power.
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.
Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by ...
Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14.
Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...
The danger and hardship gets worse by the day for civilians in eastern Ukraine. Still, they resist leaving the places that have become their homes. By Tyler Hicks and Gaëlle Girbes Human rights ...
Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he was close to the departure lounge when it was hit. Ukraine's air force says it detected 184 missiles and ...
Maps have often misrepresented the real size of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed countries. Cartographers in recent times and preceding centuries portrayed the world ...
Celebrity Beyond becomes the best overall cruise ship of 2024, according to the annual Cruise Hive Awards.
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