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DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria on Sunday held its first parliamentary elections, nearly a year after a rebel-led offensive unseated longtime autocratic leader Bashar Assad. The People’s Assembly will be ...
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: Syrian security forces impose curfew in Latakia following deadly protests, violence
Syrian security forces imposed a curfew on Latakia city, a bastion of the country's Alawite minority, state media reported on Tuesday, days after four people were killed in protests that spiraled into ...
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: Three dead in Alawite protests on Syrian coast, local officials say
LATAKIA, Syria Dec 28 - Three people were killed on Sunday when protests in Syria's Alawite heartland of Latakia spiralledinto gunfire and other violence, according to the province's media office.
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: Syrian gov’t troops deployed to Latakia, Tartous after deadly clashes
Syrian government troops have been deployed to the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous after demonstrations led to deadly clashes in which at least four people were killed and 108 were injured. It’s ...
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: Syria imposes curfew in Latakia days after protests turn violent, state media says
Dec 30 (Reuters) - Syrian security forces imposed a curfew on Latakia city, a bastion of the country's Alawite minority, state media reported on Tuesday, days after four people were killed in protests ...
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: A who's who of the Assad family in Syria
Sunni majority Syria was carved out of Ottoman Turkey in 1945, but since 1970, the Assad clan from an Alawite minority has ruled over it.
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: Residents Of Syria's Latakia Pick Up Pieces After Sectarian Clashes
Surrounded by damaged cars and shattered glass, residents of Syria's port city of Latakia inspected on Tuesday the aftermath of an attack on predominantly Alawite neighbourhoods, as authorities ...
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: Syrian minorities are striving for recognition
Syria's new Constitutional Declaration explicitly adopts international human rights law. Although this is theoretically significant for minority rights, the government fails to honor them in practice.
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: Foundation for the Development of Western Syria Marks One-Year Anniversary of the March 2025 Massacre of Alawites and Christians in Latakia and Coastal Syria
The Foundation for the Development of Western Syria (the "Foundation") today solemnly commemorates the one-year anniversary of the March 2025 massacre that devastated Alawite and Christian communities ...
News Syria » Latakia » Politics: Syria hopes for terrorism delisting to spur economic recovery
Damascus: The Syrian government is betting that removal from Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, a designation in place since 1979, will clear the biggest political and legal hurdle to ...