In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

Assad's Alawite community mourned on Thursday three civilians killed by foreign Islamist allies of the country's new authorities, a war monitor and an attendee said.

Wael Soulaiman picks his way carefully around the edge of the three strips of hardened dirt, each about the length of a ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that ...

We visit the hometown of the ousted Syrian President, Bashir al-Assad. Qardaha lies in northwest Syria, considered the heartlands of the Alawite religious sect.

The Middle East − cradle of civilizations − is in deep crisis swamped in ignorance, autocracy, corruption, violence and oppression. Like many other children of the region, I am still rejoicing with ...

Egypt gave up its role as the leader of the Arab World after the signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1978, just ...

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 ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of life caused by the earthquake that struck the Tibet Autonomous Region of China on Tuesday, his Spokesperson said ...

Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.

The people of Majdal Shams were scared to normalize or become citizens of Israel because of the Assad regime,” Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif told JNS. “Now the situation is different.” ...