Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...

Assad's Alawite sect and other loyalist communities since his fall, with many questioning how the collapse was so rapid after ...

The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president's Alawite hometown on ...

The Assads have ruled Syria for over half a century. Today, rebel forces have breached their seat of power Damascus, ...

Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political ...

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the ...

The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president's Alawite hometown on Monday and received their support, in what residents said was an encouraging ...

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, who widely backed Assad and from whom he drew his personal presidential guards, is seen in Syria as a lithmus test of whether the takeover of Dama ...

Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported “the mass exodus of Alawites from Homs ...

The sudden collapse of President Bashar al-Assad has come as welcome news to many, but there are jitters both inside and ...

Assad's Alawite minority community were fleeing Syria's third city Homs Thursday, for fear that Islamist-led rebels would keep up their advance, a war monitor said.