Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future
Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...
Bashar al-Assad Exploited Alawites’ Fear
Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...
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US demands answers from new Syrian gov’t after reports of attacks on minorities
After tacitly recognizing the new Syrian government mostly led by representatives of the Islamist Hay at Tahrir al-Sham HTS ...
As thousands celebrate al-Assad's fall, Syrian Alawites remain cautious
Assad's recent ouster, ethnic Syrian Alawites have found themselves increasingly anxious over the future under HTS rule, ...
An uneasy calm settles over Syrian city of Homs after outbreak of sectarian violence
Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the ...
Alawites fear for future after fall of ‘protector’ Bashar al-Assad
On Wednesday, rebels with the Islamist group that overthrew the regime, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), burned the tomb of Assad’s father, Hafez, who ruled Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. The ...
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Alawites fear for future after fall of ‘protector’ Bashar al-Assad
Bulent Kuş hopes the Sunni Muslims won’t harm the Alawites now they are in control of Syria - Bradley Secker In the Turkish coastal town Samandag, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has met ...
Syria's emerging incidents, unrest raise minorities' fears
Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...
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Syria: The Cursed Syrian Alawites
For decades the Alawites had prospered by supporting the Assad family, but thirteen years of civil war had meant heavy losses for the Alawites and that was blamed on misrule by the Assads. The Assad ...