The BBC hears harrowing accounts of assaults appearing to target the sect of former President Assad.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, Nour al-Din al-Baba, stated that the disappearances ranged from “voluntary elopement with a romantic partner” to “temporary absence at friends’ or ...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — The woman, a member of Syria 's Alawite religious minority, was walking home on a sunny July day in her town on the Mediterranean coast when three gunmen stopped her and pulled ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian government-led committee has found that most allegations of kidnapping of women from the Alawite religious minority were false, the findings of the monthslong probe ...

A country in transition is judged by who feels able to stay.

Syria Alawite Women FILE - Members of the Alawite minority gather outside the Russian air base in Hmeimim, near Latakia in Syria's coastal region, March 11, 2025, as they seek refuge there after ...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — The woman, a member of Syria ‘s Alawite religious minority, was walking home on a sunny July day in her town on the Mediterranean coast when three gunmen stopped her and pulled ...