This week, millions of Syrians are celebrating the end of Bashar al-Assad’s bloody dictatorship. The rapid advance of Hayat ...

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

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 Syrian Arab Army is no more, an institution built to fight Israel that eventually ate itself due to rampant corruption ...

Assad, who belongs to the minority Alawites community, maintained power over the Sunni-majority Syria for 24 years. However, ...

Jolani has sought to rebrand his and his group’s position, while distancing himself from their Al Qaeda connections.

Assad's prime minister said he had agreed on Monday to hand power to the rebel-led Salvation Government, a day after the ...

For the first time in 50 years, the question of how Syria will be governed is wide open. The end of the Assad family's rule ...

Surprising many, protests have emerged in Alawite areas without sparking sectarian violence. With newfound relief, Alawites in regions like Homs cautiously embraced the rebels' restrained approach, ...

Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...

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