For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces ...

Fighters affiliated with Syria’s new Islamist leaders have carried out 35 summary executions over 72 hours, mostly of ...

In Syria, the bloodshed continues almost two months after the fall of the Assad regime. The motives for ever new acts of ...

Fighters affiliated with Syria's new Islamist leaders have carried out 35 summary executions over 72 hours, mostly of ...

The war monitor argued that the groups ‘carried out reprisals and settled old scores with members of the Alawite minority to ...

Fighters affiliated with Syria's new Islamist leaders have carried out 35 summary executions over 72 hours, mostly of Assad-era officers, a war monitor said Sunday.

Three-quarters of Syria’s 23 million citizens are Sunnis, one-tenth are Alawites, and the rest are a mix of Christians, Ismaili Shiites and Druze. Shambos said the situation inside Syria remains ...

The BBC has reported attempted confiscations of Alawite property in Latakia province ... whose employment required us to remove religious symbols in the classroom. That was a costly but necessary ...

The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites are a minority sect which follows an esoteric offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Thankfully the symbols they use are (mostly) universal, so once you've learned what each represents (as we explain below) you shouldn't have any problems no matter what you find in your laundry basket ...

“They told me, ‘You’re an Alawite pig!’ They treated me like an animal because I’m Alawite,” he said, speaking under the condition of anonymity for safety reasons. In a secluded ...