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

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

Rebel fighters patrol the coastal Syrian city of Latakia, Dec. 10, 2024. Members of the Alawite minority, an offshoot of ...

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

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 ...

Most of the Syrians who fled are believed to be Alawites – members of the same Islamic sect that included the Assad family ...

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

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

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

The stunning collapse of the brutal Assad regime in Syria, a family business since the 1970s, is a geopolitical earthquake ...