Now it is Syria’s turn to try to get it right. It is hard to draw lessons from the experiences of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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

In Syria’s Alawite heartland, the story of Zarda Khadour mirrors the plight of countless others. A retired cook from Masyaf, she spent 30 years working at a chi ...

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 ...

After the downfall of the Assad regime, how can Syrians reconcile and form an inclusive government for all citizens? NPR speaks with Mona Yacoubian with the United States Institute of Peace.

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.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A tense calm prevails in the strategic Syrian city of Homs, where protests by members of the Alawite ...