Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

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 ...

For decades, the Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad built his power on a single, relentless narrative of survival: The regime ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar ...

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

Syria's new rebel-led authorities say supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops ...

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in Syria over a video showing an attack on an Alawite shrine, with a war monitor saying ...

As thousands celebrate the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad in Umayyad Square in central Damascus every day, many Syrian ...

The Alawites’ concerns are twofold: They are afraid of a possible reckoning by rebels on the grounds of their presumed identification with the Assad regime, and they are worried about ...

Although members of the Christian community said they are happy to see the Assad regime go, many are wary of their new ...

This narrative, and the fear of Sunni extremist groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, kept many Alawites bound to Assad even as the cost became unbearable. With Assad gone ...