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

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 ...

In the Assad clan's former heartland of Latakia, many in the toppled president's Alawite minority are relieved that his iron-clad rule has come to an end. But they fear marginalisation -- and even ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

But Latakia's Alawite population is fearful. Some people haven't even left their homes since the regime change because they worry that there will be a reckoning, and that they will have to pay a ...

Alawites account for about nine percent of Syria's population, or around 1.7 million people. The community has been repeatedly targeted since Assad's ouster. This month, authorities said they were ...

But that’s not happening,” Al-Rahy, the Alawite activist, said. “These people are slaughtering us in the middle of our homes. We’re already divided — so let’s just have division.” ...

As the war drags on and his Alawite base hollows out, Bashar al-Assad may be left with a unified territory without a pedestal from which to rule: Assad may become a ruler without a people.

But at the entrance to areas where the city's Alawite minority lives, armed men in fatigues have set up roadblocks and checkpoints. People in one such neighbourhood, speaking anonymously for fear ...

DAMASCUS - Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Latakia and Tartus on Feb 16, his office said, making his first ...

and they erupted in an Alawite suburb of Damascus. We raced there but stopped at a crossroads leading to the area. HTS gunmen are telling people to go back. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking Arabic).

Security forces of the new Syrian government secure the area around a group of Alawite demonstrators in Damascus' Mazzeh district on Dec. 25, 2024. (Omar Sanadiki / Associated Press) ...