Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...
President-elect Donald Trump will have to deal with another volatile situation in Syria as a new faction toppled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year regime, setting the stage for another ...
Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...
Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political reality being established by a Sunni militia that is still listed as a terror ...
The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president's Alawite hometown on ...
Many from ethnic minorities are fleeing Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime was deposed on the weeekend ...
The story of post-independent Syria is intricately linked to the Assad family belonging to the minority Alawite sect, which ...
Assad's Alawite sect and other loyalist communities since his fall, with many questioning how the collapse was so rapid after ...
Most of the Syrians who fled are believed to be Alawites – members of the same Islamic sect that included the Assad family ...