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, ...

The Alawites feared retribution, and for good reason. The Alawites used terror to maintain power for decades. Most Syrians have good reason to hate the Alawites, as well as all those who have ...

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 where ...

Their differing ambitions—revival of the Ottoman Empire vs. restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate—place them on a potential collision course.

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

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...