Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham ...

SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces ... His rise brought to power the minority Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam that had been marginalised by the Sunni ...

The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

such as Alawites and Ismailis. In addition, small communities of Druze inhabit areas near the Lebanese and Israeli borders, while Yazidis are found in the northeast. Post-war Syria presents a ...

fueled concern that Iran may seek to derail the transition to a post-Al-Assad Syria by fostering an insurgency driven by grievances of religious minorities like the Alawites, the Shiite Muslim ...

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

The boys "were supposed to finish school this year", she said quietly. Alawites account for about nine percent of Syria's population, or around 1.7 million people. The community has been ...

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure minorities in multi-ethnic multi-confessional Syria that they will be protected.