On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar ...

Bashar al-Assad sold them a destructive narrative of existential struggle.

As thousands celebrate the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad in Umayyad Square in central Damascus every day, many Syrian ...

Suweida had a quasi-autonomous status under Assad, and the Druze want that to continue. It is just one example of the ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

On Wednesday, rebels with the Islamist group that overthrew the regime, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), burned the tomb of ...

The Alawites are a Shiite offshoot known for their syncretic views and less strict adherence to Islamic dietary restrictions.

The Alawites’ concerns are twofold: They are afraid of a possible reckoning by rebels on the grounds of their presumed identification with the Assad regime, and they are worried about ...

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 ...

Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...