Exclusive: In Assad's Alawite hometown, Syrian rebels win statement of support
The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president's Alawite hometown on Monday and received their support, in what residents said was an encouraging sign of tolerance from the country's new rulers.
Syria post-Assad: Alawite minority faces uncertainty under Islamist rebel control
Rebel fighters patrol the coastal Syrian city of Latakia, Dec. 10, 2024. Members of the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, make up about 10% of Syria’s population of 24 million people and are primarily concentrated in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus.
Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...
Recently ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was part of the Alawite community. Aghiad Ghanem, a Franco-Syrian expert in ...
Assad's Alawite sect and other loyalist communities since his fall, with many questioning how the collapse was so rapid after ...
Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported “the mass exodus of Alawites from Homs ...
For over five decades, this Alawite dynasty has held sway over a predominantly Sunni nation. This long rule, initiated by Hafez al-Assad in 1970, now stares at an abrupt end. Hafez al-Assad rose ...
The US State Department is advertising an up to 10-million-dollar reward for information leading to the capture of Abu ...
"Then he turned to Jerusalem to trump Solomon’s Temple. In 543 Justinian and Theodora started to build a basilica, the Nea ...
In the short period following Assad’s abrupt fall, rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, ...
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