Bulent Kuş hopes the Sunni Muslims won’t harm the Alawites now they are in control of Syria - Bradley Secker In the Turkish coastal town Samandag, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has met with ...

A series of lethal bombings ripped through the Syrian coastal cities of Tartus and Jableh in late May, killing around 150 people. ISIL immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts, stating that ...

News reports keep reminding us of the civil war in Syria. An important group in this war is the Alawite sect of Islam, to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs. Who are these Alawites in the middle ...

The Alawites are a small, historically oppressed people, whose political future will determine whether Syria remains united in some form or disintegrates into even smaller ethnic and religious ...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon – Lebanese members of the Syrian leader's Alawite sect fear their tiny community will be a casualty of the civil war raging in the neighboring country. Already, Sunni Muslim ...

More than 1,400 people died in March in attacks on security forces and subsequent mass killings of Alawites, a Syrian fact-finding committee said on Tuesday. However, it concluded that commanders had ...

In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face could be an informer. “See those ...

“The Alawi sect had traditionally been suppressed in the country. And all of a sudden, [Hafez al-Assad] took this minority to the highest echelons of power and prestige.” – Andrew Tabler “If you’re ...

For many observers, Syrian Alawites appeared on the surface to be supporters of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. However, Fouad Hamira, the founder of a movement made up of members from the Shiite ...

Throughout the uprising in Syria, President Bashar Assad has been able to count on strong support in own sect, the Alawites. But recent reports suggest that a small but growing number of Alawites are ...

And the Alawites were heavily recruited into this army. And within 10 years - by 1955 it's estimated that Alawites made up almost 60 percent of the noncommissioned officers. By the mid-60s, Alawites ...