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 rebels, however, have so far pursued dialogue over any persecution of the Alawites as a whole.
Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...
Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...
The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president's Alawite hometown on ...
Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political reality being established by a Sunni militia that is still listed as a terror ...
Many from ethnic minorities are fleeing Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime was deposed on the weeekend ...
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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Most of the Syrians who fled are believed to be Alawites – members of the same Islamic sect that included the Assad family ...
"Then he turned to Jerusalem to trump Solomon’s Temple. In 543 Justinian and Theodora started to build a basilica, the Nea ...
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