Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the community's fears and desires to stay in power.
On December 8, 2024, jihadist forces led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized power, creating new threats to the rights and lives of Christians, Alawites and other minorities.
Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...
FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Recent days have seen sectarian tensions in Syria between the majority Sunni community and ...
Sharaa, until recently known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is an Islamist who started out in al-Qaida. He is therefore still ...
According to the source, "another woman is in a coma, hit by a bullet when she was standing at the window, possibly filming" the protest on video ...
On December 27, security forces formed by the new Syrian government blocked districts of the city of Tartus, where Alawites organized riots ...
Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...
Syria's new rebel-led authorities say supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops ...
The violence in Tartous province marks the deadliest challenge yet to the Islamist-led authorities which swept Bashar ...
Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the ...
Several interior ministry personnel were killed in a clash as they went to arrest an officer of the ousted Assad regime.