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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Wnos said he heard from people in Syria that food was entering ... s center lined with rose bushes and featuring a statue of an Alawite sword, a menorah, the Koran and a statue of the Virgin ...

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).

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) ...