Last week his officials announced a seven-person “preparatory” committee, charged with planning a national conference where a new constitution will be discussed. Critics say it is dominated by ...

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Gunmen killed at least 10 people in Syria on Friday in an attack on a village from former president Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority, in what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called a ...

all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland. After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure ...

Between the ambitions of the country’s leadership and those of Turkey and Israel, the post-al-Assad era already presents ...

Assad had presented himself as a protector of minorities in multi-ethnic, multi-confessional Syria, but largely concentrated power in the hands of his fellow Alawites. Latakia and Tartus are also ...

Because of its religious diversity and bloody history during the civil war, the city is considered a test case for the new ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa made his first official visit to Latakia and Tartus, home to Assad's Alawite community and Russian military ...