Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...
Many from ethnic minorities are fleeing Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime was deposed on the weeekend ...
Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political ...
Recently ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was part of the Alawite community. Aghiad Ghanem, a Franco-Syrian expert in international relations, believes that despite their association with the ...
The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president's Alawite hometown on ...
When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...
Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...
Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the ...
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 ...
Syria's population, comprising various ethnic and religious groups, makes it one of the most diverse countries in the Middle ...