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.
What to Know About Bashar Assad, Syria’s Fallen Dictator
The news comes a day after Syria’s new interim leader Mohammed al-Bashir announced he was assuming the role of the country’s caretaker prime minister until March 1. Bashir previously served as the head of the rebel administration’s self-formed “salvation government.
Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...
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Thousands of Syrians gathered Friday at Umayyad Square, the largest in Damascus, to celebrate after the first Muslim Friday ...
The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president's Alawite hometown on ...
Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...
Many from ethnic minorities are fleeing Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime was deposed on the weeekend ...
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 ...
The story of post-independent Syria is intricately linked to the Assad family belonging to the minority Alawite sect, which ...
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 ...
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