Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

“I thought for certain they would kill us,” Ibrahim said. In nearly two dozen interviews, Syrian Alawites said they are worried about discrimination under the country’s new government and the risk of ...

The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...

The hillside village lies near the city of Tartus, in the heartland of Syria’s Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam from which the Assads hail. Pictures of Bashar al-Assad, the ousted dictator ...

Assad’s fall sparked joy for many Syrians, but it also triggered wariness from his religious sect, the Alawites, a Shiite offshoot that makes up around 10% of the population. Alawites served as ...

KHIRBET AL-HAMMAM, Syria — Violence came roaring into this village in western Syria last week, when war was supposed to have receded. Munitions fired by former rebels tore through homes, killed ...

DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face ...

Syria's Alawites are living in fear following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to the Washington Post this week. During his rule, Assad recruited many Alawites as military ...

But Alawites fear a backlash against their sect, long associated with the Assads. The new authorities deny wrongdoing, saying they are after former Assad forces. Shihadi Mayhoub, a former lawmaker ...

DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria's Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face could ...

KHIRBET AL-MA’ZAH, Syria—When Sunni Islamist rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime, many residents of this rural village were elated by the end of a half-century of oppression even though ...