Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

The hillside village lies near the city of Tartus, in the heartland of Syria’s Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam from which the Assads hail. Pictures of Bashar al-Assad, the ousted dictator ...

Protests erupted across Syria overnight in areas dominated by the Alawite minority after videos spread of militants desecrating an Alawite shrine. Alawites are seen as having been loyal to the ...

Thousands of Syrians from ousted President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor ...