A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller attacks since the star ...

In the city, young people tore down posters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. With the capture of Homs, the rebels now control a strategic center in Syria and a key crossroads linking Damascus with ...

The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

To the group, the revolution against former Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad symbolised the broader revolution against ... the imaginations of Sunni Islamist Muslims worldwide and drew young, ...

Images of Bashar al-Assad and his family were emblematic of the dynasty’s grip on Syria. Though remnants linger after the regime’s ouster, the removal of the once ubiquitous relics has offered ...