The sect has its roots in Shia Islam. The word Alawite means “follower of Ali,” the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ...
On March 6, clashes erupted in the provinces of Latakia, Tartus, and Homs between security forces loyal to the new Syrian authorities and supporters of former President Bashar Assad ...
Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, ...
Violence is flaring across parts of western Syria, as forces of the self-styled Syrian transitional government have clashed with Alawite militias and ...
The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...
The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...
Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...
Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...
When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...
Clashes between Assad loyalists and the country's new Islamist rulers in the former president's coastal heartland have killed ...
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Cebu Daily News on MSNTerrified Alawites in Syria flee attacks: ‘Roads full of corpses’For two days, Rihab Kamel and her family hid terrified in their bathroom in the city of Baniyas as armed men stormed the ...
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