Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children ...

Alawites constitute Syria’s largest minority and account for about 10 per cent of the population. The Assad connection has ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...

Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday urged insurgents from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority to lay ...

Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has urged insurgents from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority to lay down ...

Violent clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted longtime President Bashar al-Assad erupted on Thursday ...

Rihab Kamel and her family hid terrified in their bathroom in the city of Baniyas as armed men stormed the neighbourhood, ...

Syrian security forces deployed heavily in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on Saturday, after a war monitor ...

Under Assad, Alawites held top posts in the army and ... launched a surprise offensive against Vladimir Putin's ally President Bashar al-Assad's regime in December. This marked the conclusion ...

A Syrian war monitor said Friday that security forces "executed" 69 members of the Alawite minority, a day after deadly ...