Over the past days, several videos widely circulating on social media purportedly graphically showed Islamist groups and ...
Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...
Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...
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 ...
Assad's recent ouster, ethnic Syrian Alawites have found themselves increasingly anxious over the future under HTS rule, ...
On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar Assad, was ousted two weeks ago — vandals have sprayed variations of the ...
Given the key role Alawites played in Assad’s brutally repressive government, experts had expected sectarian violence to be more widespread. But HTS has worked to reduce tensions in villages ...
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 ...
Their differing ambitions—revival of the Ottoman Empire vs. restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate—place them on a potential collision course.
The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...