Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.
Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...
The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...
The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...
They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...
Syria's new authorities are training a fledgling police force - with a focus on Islamic teachings.Officers brought into Damascus from their former rebel enclave in Idlib are also asking applicants ...
THE TREES of Khirbet al-Mezzeh are loaded with over-ripe lemons. The hillside village lies near the city of Tartus, in the heartland of Syria’s Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam from which the ...
Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...
As sectarian tensions rise in Syria following the collapse of the Assad regime, a minority sect fears for its future amid calls for mass slaughter. The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a ...
Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ouster of Syria’s dictator. By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Ivor ...