The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...
They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...
In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international ...
From our special correspondent in Syria – A month after Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed, Syria's Alawite minority, which served as the regime's backbone, fears a witch hunt. In their ...
Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...
Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...
The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...