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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Syria: fall of Assad a blow for Iran’s ‘Shia crescent’ – here are its foreign policy options in the new-look Middle East
When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...
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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Why Armies Crumble
But the most consequential factor behind recent army collapses is external rather than internal: the loss of foreign patrons.
With Syria's Assad gone, his PM agrees to hand power to rebel administration
Assad's prime minister said he had agreed on Monday to hand power to the rebel-led Salvation Government, a day after the ...
At Syria’s border with Lebanon, refugees return home while others flee fearing the worst
Nadia’s eyes were full of tears as she crossed the border from Syria to Lebanon. She was finally going to see her son. A ...