The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...
Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...
Following the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad last month, US-backed Kurdish forces have been under mounting ...
Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international ...
Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...
The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...
The Assad dynasty crumbled in mere weeks under a coordinated opposition offensive starting in late November 2024. The ...