Gunmen killed at least 10 people in Syria on Friday in an attack on a village from former president Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority, in what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called a ...

In the Assad clan's former heartland of Latakia, many in the toppled president's Alawite minority are relieved that his iron-clad rule has come to an end. But they fear marginalisation -- and even ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland.After Islamist-led ...

But that’s not happening,” Al-Rahy, the Alawite activist, said. “These people are slaughtering us in the middle of our homes. We’re already divided — so let’s just have division.” ...

But Latakia's Alawite population is fearful. Some people haven't even left their homes since the regime change because they worry that there will be a reckoning, and that they will have to pay a ...

As the war drags on and his Alawite base hollows out, Bashar al-Assad may be left with a unified territory without a pedestal from which to rule: Assad may become a ruler without a people.

Imam Zulfikar Fadil Gazal, a prominent figure in Syria's Alawite community ... that avoids past mistakes and does not oppress its people. Reflecting on Latakia’s post-conflict recovery, Gazal ...

But at the entrance to areas where the city's Alawite minority lives, armed men in fatigues have set up roadblocks and checkpoints. People in one such neighbourhood, speaking anonymously for fear ...

and they erupted in an Alawite suburb of Damascus. We raced there but stopped at a crossroads leading to the area. HTS gunmen are telling people to go back. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking Arabic).

This month, authorities said they were searching for "criminals" after an attack in an Alawite village in Hama province that the Observatory said killed 10 people, including a child and an elderly ...

Security forces of the new Syrian government secure the area around a group of Alawite demonstrators in Damascus' Mazzeh district on Dec. 25, 2024. (Omar Sanadiki / Associated Press) ...