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

The sea change toward tenuous hope in Syria over the last two weeks has been tempered with a grim accounting of the last 14 years of war and a half a century of authoritarian rule under the Assad ...

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 ...

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound. Now the Assad ...

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

Once celebrated as an advocate of women's rights in the Middle East, Syria's British-born former first lady Asma al-Assad has ...

Syrians are dancing in the streets of Damascus and other cities, to celebrate the collapse of the hideous regime of Bashar al ...

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 ...

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

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