Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee ...

Syria’s government said late on Friday that it was “closely following” the findings of a new Amnesty International report urging an investigation into sectarian massacres last month.

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Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community published on March 2025, paints a grim picture of Syria’s future.

Syria vows to investigate sectarian massacres after Amnesty warns attacks on Alawites may amount to war crimes ...

The icy winds of Moscow offer little warmth for exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose sudden downfall on December 8 ...

All told, despite sectarian divisions, Syrians are surprisingly upbeat. Except for Alawites, three-quarters of whom want ...

Who are the Alawites, and when did they emerge? The Alawites began to take shape around the 10th century within the broader Shia world. Following the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 ...