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 ...
In Damascus, among the ruins of Qaboun, the ghost of community tensions
The Syrian capital's Sunni-populated suburb was besieged and bombed for years by government forces, in the name of protecting ...
Disinformation campaigns could lead Syria back into civil war
A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors 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 ...
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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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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Syria: The Cursed Syrian Alawites
The Alawites feared retribution, and for good reason. The Alawites used terror to maintain power for decades. Most Syrians have good reason to hate the Alawites, as well as all those who have ...
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Sectarian violence in Syria has been less intense than feared since Assad's ouster
Given the key role Alawites played in Assad’s brutally repressive government, experts had expected sectarian violence to be more widespread. But HTS has worked to reduce tensions in villages ...
Syria's emerging incidents, unrest raise minorities' fears
Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...