The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...
They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...
In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...
Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...
Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor and an attendee said.
But Alawites fear a backlash against their sect, long associated with the Assads. The new authorities deny wrongdoing, saying they are after former Assad forces. The Syrian Observatory for Human ...
The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...