The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

The wooden shipbuilding industry in Arwad dates back to the Phoenician era and is more than 2,500 years old. Yet it has been ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...

In most cases reviewed by The National, captors demanded exorbitant ransoms that many families could not afford, while other ...

Mazen Alloush, Director of Public Relations at the General Authority for Land and sea Ports, told SANA that the shipment ...

"Don't wait for her," the WhatsApp caller told the family of Abeer Suleiman on May 21, hours after she vanished from the streets of the Syrian town of Safita. "She's not coming back." ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGESFor three days in March, Syrian Alawites were killed by the hundreds.We knew we needed to ...

President Donald Trump on June 22 ordered an airstrike on Iran, which included a strike on the country’s Fordow nuclear plant ...

Dozens of Alawite women and girls disappear this year Some are abducted, families receive ransom demands Assad’s fall led to ...

According to a Reuters report, at least 33 Alawite women and girls aged 16 to 39 have gone missing this year, including Abeer Suleiman, a 29-year-old woman kidnapped on May 21 in Safita.

A surge in the abductions of Alawite women across Syria’s coastal provinces is reviving dark memories of Daesh's (ISIS or ...