How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...
Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.
Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...
A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are ...
The Syrian capital's Sunni-populated suburb was besieged and bombed for years by government forces, in the name of protecting ...
Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the ...
The Syrian transitional government’s Ministry of Interior continued a security operation pursuing “remnants of the former ...
After the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Syria, several attacks on the country’s Alawite and Christian ...
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 ...
Although members of the Christian community said they are happy to see the Assad regime go, many are wary of their new ...