Gunmen in Syria have shot dead 10 people in a "massacre" in a village home to members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are weighing whether to trust them.

Three concentric circles of domestic, regional, and global actors compete for power and influence in Syria because of the ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the armed groups in Syria should be merged into a single army and a single ...

Calls for Syria’s new authorities to guarantee equality and safety for Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities have been loud ...

As part of our ongoing mission to defend the oppressed and resist oppressors, we condemn the crimes committed by Jolani’s terrorists [a reference to Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS)] in Syria against ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, was declared Syria's head of state for a transitional phase and empowered to form a new legislative council, state media ...

Many senior military jobs were held by members of the family’s minority Alawite sect, and party membership was used as a cover to give it a nationalist rather than a sectarian nature.

TUNIS, January 27. /TASS/. Five people, including one child, were killed after militants attacked an Alawite village near the city of Hama in central Syria, the Al Watan newspaper reported.

Hassan Abdul Ghani, the state-run SANA news agency said. Once Syria’s most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator. Jan. 23, 2025 Al ...

At the heart of Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power was Mohamed Deeb Daboul (known as Abu Saleem), a close confidant and office secretary of the late Syrian president since the late 1960s. Daboul was born ...