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

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

Despite the rhetoric of HTS leaders about tolerance for minorities, there’s more developing behind the scenes than is being ...

Assad's regime collapsed, Syria's Alawite minority, which served as the regime's backbone, fears a witch hunt. In their ...

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

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 ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new authorities comb their districts for "remnants of the regime", arresting ...

And their social media feeds were rife with other stories of violence against Alawites, including an incident in Homs where six people were killed. At the center of that story was Hatem Suleiman ...

Bashar al-Assad behaved like a monster not because he was Alawite but because he was a monster." In the seaside town of Tartus, people are beginning to speak out. Razan*, a civil servant ...