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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Syria: Challenges Facing Ahmad Al-Shara As He Strives For Legitimacy Both Inside And Outside War-Torn Country
A web of competing interests, deeply tied to sectarian and tribal allegiances and entrenched nepotism further eroded the army ...
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Post-Assad Syria — A Work In Progress
Syria has been a work in progress, a nation to be rebuilt, since the downfall of its autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, a ...
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 ...