As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

The first time I visited the port city of Latakia, it was timed perfectly with an August sunrise. The taxi driver grabbed a ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

Sheikh Hatem, one of the leading figures of the Alawite community in Syria, waters the flowers during an exclusive interview ...

As Russia clings to its only bases in the Mediterranean — they’re on the coast of Syria — Ukraine is moving aggressively to ...

Syria's new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a ...

After tacitly recognizing the new Syrian government mostly led by representatives of the Islamist Hay at Tahrir al-Sham HTS ...

Syria's new interim authorities have detained around 300 people since the start of a crackdown on remnants of Assad's militi ...

Syria’s new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a crackdown on loyalists to ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, a ...

Syria’s new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a ...