How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

Syria's new authorities have arrested a military justice official who under ousted president Bashar al-Assad issued death ...

QARDAHA, Syria -- On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, ...

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, ...

The community has made some conciliatory gestures: religious leaders in Qardaha, the Assad family’s hometown, say they accept HTS’s rule and will remove statues of the former president.

Rebels led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gathered in mausoleum in the family's home town of Qardaha, in the north-west of the coastal Latakia region. Rebels say they have taken full ...

“We were living in oppression, we were unable to speak,” Ibtissam Kaab, a resident of Assad’s hometown Qardaha, told AFP. “Whenever we wanted to speak, they threatened to harm us and our ...

The marble mausoleum in the al-Assads’ western Syrian hometown of Qardaha was stormed, looted and torched by the opposition after they took the capital Damascus, ending a family dynasty that ...

The marble mausoleum in the Assads' western Syrian hometown of Qardaha was stormed, looted and torched by rebels after they took the capital Damascus, ending a family dynasty that began with Assad ...

People take selfies with flags and rifles borrowed from fighters of the ruling Syrian body at a square in central Latakia QARDAHA, Syria (Reuters) - Now covered in ashes and empty bullet casings ...

QARDAHA, Syria (Reuters) - Now covered in ashes and empty bullet casings, the grand mausoleum of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's family stood in the eyes of rebels as a symbol of the ...