As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

"A rally of Alawites was held in Latakia following the burning of their shrines ... "In addition, it became known that a Sunni was brought to the Alawite village, accused of something, and awaiting ...

In a statement from exile in Moscow, Assad claimed he did not want to leave Syria but was ... They come from a little village called Qardaha, and we went there today in Latakia district.

Akca, who had been displaced to the city center of Latakia, a Syrian coastal city, returned to his native village of Kulcuk after more than a decade of displacement. “It’s been 13 years since ...

The cavernous building sits high on a hilltop overlooking al-Qardaha, the Assad family’s ancestral village ... sits in the middle of Latakia province on Syria’s western Mediterranean coast ...

new video loaded: They Fought for Assad in Syria. Now They’re Handing in Their Guns. transcript In a former police station in Latakia, Syria, the past and the present collide. Once controlled by ...

Planes periodically descended and rose from Russia’s Hmeimim air base in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia while smoke rose from the base. It was unclear what was burning. In the streets of ...

Air strike on Syrian Army munitions warehouses along the country's Mediterranean coast. The Israel Air Force reportedly carried out intensive airstrikes along Syria’s Mediterranean coast Sunday ...

AL-HAKEEM, Syria — The woman was clutching her infant, still in the dressing gown and pajamas she had been wearing a day earlier when fighters overran this village in Syria’s Latakia province ...

At Russia's Hmeimim air base in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia, planes were seen landing and taking off while smoke rose from inside the base. Hmeimim has a significant Russian military ...