President-elect Donald Trump plans to launch a mass deportation operation targeting millions of immigrants living in the U.S.

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Bashar al-Assad sold them a destructive narrative of existential struggle.

Assad's recent ouster, ethnic Syrian Alawites have found themselves increasingly anxious over the future under HTS rule, ...

Also Read: Syria's 13-year civil war: Timeline of key events since 2011 - What you should know The Assad family came from the Shia minority sect of Alawites. Shias are only around 13 per cent of the ...

Dictatorships never end well and no matter how resistant (like Soviet communism for 80 years) they always have an expiration date, let alone family dictatorships with 10 percent of Alawites ...

This shift marked a departure from their historically marginalised status, as the Alawites began to assert influence within Syria's evolving power structures. The Alawite minority, which makes up ...

With Syrian rebels edging ever closer to the capital Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad is making a last-ditch attempt to remain in power, including indirect diplomatic overtures to the United ...