Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...
Khaled Abu Chahine, 51, from Kafr Shams in the southern province of Daraa, where the 2011 uprising first erupted, said he ...
Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...
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 ...
Thousands of Syrians gathered Friday at Umayyad Square, the largest in Damascus, to celebrate after the first Muslim Friday ...
Most of the Syrians who fled are believed to be Alawites – members of the same Islamic sect that included the Assad family ...