(Latakia is the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority sect, from which the Assad family and regime hailed.) The response by government forces was worrying. For example, video appearing to show ...

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 ...

said Hamra, whose family has settled in New York. His family fled the Syrian capital to escape the repressive government of Hafez Assad. With the toppling of his son, Bashar Assad, in December and ...

Meanwhile, SANA reported that during the operation, security forces captured Ibrahim Huweija, a general and former head of Syria’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate, one of the al-Assad family’s most ...

The coastal region is the heartland of the Alawite minority, and a stronghold of the Assad family, which belong to the Alawite sect. Estimations of the number of people killed in the violence vary ...

The now-exiled Assad family are Alawite. Trump floats plan to protect Ukraine's besieged power plants through U.S.-ownership March 20 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States ...

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 ...

Security forces in Syria have battled gunmen loyal to deposed President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s ... minority sect to which the al-Assad family belongs, killing “a number of security ...

once the stronghold of the Assad family. The government has tried to play down sectarian tensions. A total of 48 people were killed in fighting between Syrian security forces and pro-Assad ...

The Assad family, members of the minority Alawite sect, ruled Syria for over half a century until Assad was ousted late last year by Sunni Islamist militants who sought to reshape the country’s ...