Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.

The Minister of Displaced in the caretaker government, Issam Sharaf al-Din, revealed that 420,000 displaced Syrians returned to their country during the Israeli war on Lebanon and 60,000 displaced ...

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

The instant collapse of Assad’s rule will reshape the geopolitics of the Mideast for years to come. Within Syria itself, the challenge is how to replace the bloodthirsty past and current revolutionary ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

After tacitly recognizing the new Syrian government mostly led by representatives of the Islamist Hay at Tahrir al-Sham HTS ...

Analysis: How Trump's team navigates Syria's delicate transition into the post-Assad era could have profound repercussions ...

Their differing ambitions—revival of the Ottoman Empire vs. restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate—place them on a potential collision course.

Israel must strike Iran now, hitting high-value targets within the Islamic Republic, in order to provide the second Trump ...

Others demanded that Syria’s newly appointed authorities act in a non-sectarian way, without prejudice against the country’s Alawites. “No to burning holy places and religious discrimination. No to ...

Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by ...