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 ...
Assads And The Alawites: End Of The Old Guard In Syria
The story of post-independent Syria is intricately linked to the Assad family belonging to the minority Alawite sect, which ...
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Who are the Alawites, the religious minority from which Bashar al-Assad hails?
Recently ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was part of the Alawite community. Aghiad Ghanem, a Franco-Syrian expert in international relations, believes that despite their association with the ...
How Russia Could Maintain a Foothold in Syria
Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...
Turkey to reopen its embassy in Syria for the first time since 2012 in wake of Assad's fall
Thousands of Syrians gathered Friday at Umayyad Square, the largest in Damascus, to celebrate after the first Muslim Friday ...
Assad wanted to create statelet along Syrian coast with Russian backing as last ditch effort to remain in power: Report
Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...
Thousands queue to flee Syria as ethnic minorities fear post-Assad future
Many from ethnic minorities are fleeing Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime was deposed on the weeekend ...
Assad loyalists shaken by his fall, some relieved by lack of violence
Assad's Alawite sect and other loyalist communities since his fall, with many questioning how the collapse was so rapid after ...
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Thousands of Syrian celebrate in central Damascus during first Friday prayers since Assad’s fall
Khaled Abu Chahine, 51, from Kafr Shams in the southern province of Daraa, where the 2011 uprising first erupted, said he ...
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Thousands of Syrians celebrate in central Damascus during first Friday prayers since Assad’s fall
Thousands of Syrians celebrated in Umayyad Square, the largest in Damascus, after the first Muslim Friday prayers following the downfall of former President Bashar Assad. The leader of insurgency that ...
Pabloite political charlatans hail US-Israeli-Turkish onslaught against Syria
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surveys the Gaza genocide and the carve-up of Syria and boasts, “We are changing ...