[4] During the ten-year period when Muhammad Ali's Egypt controlled Syria, the governor Ibrahim Pasha dispatched 500 Druze warriors to suppress the Alawite revolt in the mountains in 1834–1835.

Although its population stood at 437 at the time and it did not serve as a market for the surrounding villages, it was consistently promoted by the state due to the prominence gained by its Bashaghira residents for resisting French rule and the significant number of senior officers from the faction in the Syrian Army.

[12] In 1984 al-Shaykh Badr's municipal boundaries were extended to incorporate four nearby villages, Risin, Bumanqar, Khirbet Taqala and al-Murayqib, as part of a master plan for a city of 20,000.

He described al-Shaykh Badr proper as consisting of a main street with civic buildings separated by shops while the eastern part of the city contained an administrative area, host to schools, a telephone exchange and a post office.

The opening of commercial shops in all the surrounding villages and the improvement of road connections to the major city of Tartus diminished al-Shaykh Badr's budding role as a market town for its district, with half of its new businesses shuttering since 1985.