Syria's Alawites fear retribution under the new regime, given former Assad ties
How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...
Alawites live in fear as Syrian rebels hunt members of Assad’s regime
Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.
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 ...
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Syria's new rulers raise pressure on former Assad loyalist areas
Interim Syrian government forces led by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) set up roadblocks on Monday in Alawite districts in the ...
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In Syria, a once-privileged Muslim sect is now targeted and afraid
Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the ...
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Alawites targeted as HTS launch crackdown on Homs
Sham (HTS) terrorist group has launched a crackdown on a minority group in Homs after recent protests against HTS who seized ...
Mass protests against jihadist HTS rule in Syria
After the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Syria, several attacks on the country’s Alawite and Christian ...
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Who are the Alawites of Syria?
FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Recent days have seen sectarian tensions in Syria between the majority Sunni community and Alawites, the non-Muslim sect that ruled Syria for the past 54 years. But who are ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Sectarian fears rise as regime figures hunted in Syria’s Alawite heartland
The Syrian transitional government’s Ministry of Interior continued a security operation pursuing “remnants of the former ...
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An uneasy calm settles over Syrian city of Homs after outbreak of sectarian violence
A tense calm prevailed after checkpoints were set up throughout the country’s third-largest city, which has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites and Christians. The security ...