At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by ...

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

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

Assad’s fall sparked joy for many Syrians, but it also triggered wariness from his religious sect, the Alawites, a Shiite offshoot that makes up around 10% of the population. Alawites served as ...

The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria says that the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be ...

In the words of Axios ‘ news director, the Syrian Civil War “changed everything,” leading to the climax of the Global War on ...

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. Shihadi Mayhoub, a former lawmaker ...

The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites are a minority sect which follows an esoteric offshoot of Shiite Islam.