The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international envoy says Christians and ...

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

KHIRBET AL-MA’ZAH, Syria—When Sunni Islamist rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime, many residents of this rural village were elated by the end of a half-century of oppression even though ...

KHIRBET AL-HAMMAM, Syria — Violence came roaring into this village in western Syria last week, when war was supposed to have receded. Munitions fired by former rebels tore through homes, killed ...

But Alawites fear a backlash against their sect, long associated with the Assads. The new authorities deny wrongdoing, saying they are after former Assad forces. Shihadi Mayhoub, a former lawmaker ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...