BEIRUT (AP) — The Haydar family huddled in their apartment while gunmen stalked their hometown of Baniyas, hunting for ...

Thousands have fled into Lebanon after tensions between Syria’s Alawite minority and forces backing the new government exploded last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on March 10 to revive a claim by a family over an heirloom, an impressionist painting that had ...

(Latakia is the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority sect, from which the Assad family and regime hailed.) The response by government forces was worrying. For example, video appearing to show ...

Her family were civilians and not pro-Assad, she said. The Assad family, members of the minority Alawite sect, ruled Syria for over half a century until Bashar was ousted in December by Sunni ...

The now-exiled Assad family are Alawite. March 7 (UPI) -- With a mission to destroy infrastructure, Russia attacked Ukraine Friday with dozens of missiles and more than a hundred drones.

The Assad family, which ruled Syria for over five decades until December 2024, belongs to the Alawite sect. During their rule, Alawites held significant positions in the military and government ...

The victims are reportedly from the Alawite community, the small Islamic sect to which the Assad family belongs. Under Assad, Alawites were appointed to key positions in the military and security ...

Meanwhile, SANA reported that during the operation, security forces captured Ibrahim Huweija, a general and former head of Syria’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate, one of the al-Assad family’s most ...

The Assad family, members of the minority Alawite sect, ruled Syria for over half a century until Assad was ousted late last year by Sunni Islamist militants who sought to reshape the country’s ...

and included the Assad family itself. The new government was formed from a coalition of rebels led by an Islamist Sunni Muslim group. The Observatory said most of the civilians killed in recent ...