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

The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria said Sunday the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be ...

This is a rare moment in the Middle East. Opportunity outweighs risk, and shrewdly applied American power and influence could ...

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

The hillside village lies near the city of Tartus, in the heartland of Syria’s Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam from which the Assads hail. Pictures of Bashar al-Assad, the ousted dictator ...

Assad’s fall sparked joy for many Syrians, but it also triggered wariness from his religious sect, the Alawites, a Shiite offshoot that makes up around 10% of the population. Alawites served as ...

DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria's Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face could ...

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

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