Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Sweep and search operations are under way and focusing on the foothills of the Alawite Mountains in Latakia, Jableh and farms in the adjacent governorate of Tartus, he said. The Syrian Observatory ...

The Alawites are a minority sect which follows ... moving from "isolated mountain communities" to cities and "assuming a dominant role" in government and security institutions.

Security forces of the new Syrian government secure the area around a group of Alawite demonstrators in Damascus' Mazzeh district on Dec. 25, 2024. (Omar Sanadiki / Associated Press) ...

DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean ... Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after ...

Gunmen in Syria have shot dead 10 people in a "massacre" in a village from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor said on Saturday. "Gunmen carried out a massacre on ...

DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean ... Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after ...

But Alawites, from a branch of Shiite Islam ... Ezzedine said foreign jihadists set up near the family olive groves, outside their mountain village of Ain al-Sharkia in the coastal province of Latakia ...