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

Economic shock therapy: plans include privatizations and slashing public sector jobs Reforms designed to avoid chaos of ...

Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a ...

During the Assad dynasty’s 50-year rule, Alawites formed the regime’s backbone, with about 80% working for the state, many in intelligence, security, or the military. Their community make up ...

Syria's Ahmed Al Sharaa has risen from rebel leader to interim president, after his group led a lightning offensi ...

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

Thus, a Greater Lebanon was created around Beirut for the Christian community, followed by Muslim states in Aleppo and Damascus, a Druze state, an Alawite state, and even a Kurdish region.

Some wear badges associated with Islamic State (IS). Their accents are not ... They were a stronghold of support for Mr Assad. Alawites make up about 10% of Syria’s population but predominated ...

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus leads to violent revenge against former Assad loyalists ...