Since the Islamist HTS militia seized power in Syria, reports of excessive violence and executions of members of religious ...

For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces ...

Fighters affiliated with Syria's new Islamist leaders have carried out 35 summary executions over 72 hours, mostly of ...

The war monitor argued that the groups ‘carried out reprisals and settled old scores with members of the Alawite minority to ...

Fighters affiliated with Syria's new Islamist leaders have carried out 35 summary executions over 72 hours, mostly of Assad-era officers, a war monitor said Sunday.

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster. There was ...

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine spread rapidly across Facebook. The video was quickly debunked as several ...

The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites are a minority sect which follows an esoteric offshoot of Shiite Islam.