Recently ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was part of the Alawite community. Aghiad Ghanem, a Franco-Syrian expert in ...

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

The story of post-independent Syria is intricately linked to the Assad family belonging to the minority Alawite sect, which ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

In the short period following Assad’s abrupt fall, rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, ...

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