“I’m afraid. I’m afraid for my family.” Reconciliation centers, like this one at Latakia, are so former conscripts of the Assad regime can sever any previous ties they had. Latakia's Alawite minority ...

The now-exiled Assad family are Alawite. Pope Francis makes first public appearance, leaves hospital March 23 (UPI) -- Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance since being admitted ...

Her family were civilians and not pro-Assad, she said. The Assad family, members of the minority Alawite sect, ruled Syria for over half a century until Bashar was ousted in December by Sunni ...

Insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, overthrew President Bashar Assad's secular government in early December ending the 54-year Assad family dynasty. Since then ...

The fighting on the coast has become a flashpoint for the fractious nation as it emerges from a nearly 14-year civil war and more than 50 years under Assad family dictatorships. The flaring ...

forcing Bashar to flee and ending nearly five decades of the Assad dynastic rule. Finally rid of the Assads, Bilal brought out the portraits of his slain family for the first time and hung them on ...

The victims are reportedly from the Alawite community, the small Islamic sect to which the Assad family belongs. Under Assad, Alawites were appointed to key positions in the military and security ...

Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day Saturday while others opened as usual as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, the first since the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day Saturday while others opened as usual as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy month of Ramadan ...

the first since the fall of Assad family rule in the war-torn country. Syria’s interim Ministry of Religious Endowments reportedly called for all restaurants, coffee shops and street food stands ...

Under Assad’s rule during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when observant Muslims abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset, people were allowed to eat in public.