Syria's Alawite community: Once feared, now living in fear?
Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the community's fears and desires to stay in power.Thousands of locals took to the ...
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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 choosing between existence and extinction. This narrative, and the ...
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Once the power holders under Assad, Syria’s Alawites now fear for their fates
Following the lightning victory by rebels against the Bashar al-Assad regime, jihadi rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, widely known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, has gone to great pains ...
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In Syria's Alawite area, joy at Assad fall but fear of Islamism
Ozan KOSE/AFP/AFP In the Assad clan's former heartland of Latakia, many in the toppled president's Alawite minority are relieved that his iron-clad rule has come to an end. But they fear ...
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An uneasy calm settles over Syrian city of Homs after outbreak of sectarian violence
HOMS, Syria — Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire and ...