In the address, President Cyril Ramaphosa sets out government’s key policy objectives and deliverables for the year ahead, flag challenges and outline interventions to unlock our nation’s potential.
The transitional process will be fraught with challenges, but the Syrian people deserve a peaceful, stable and prosperous ...
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – At least ten people were killed late Friday when armed assailants stormed a village inhabited by Alawites in Syria’s central Hama province, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...
They empowered minorities — Alawites, Druze, and Christians — through disproportionate recruitment into the military and administrative ranks at the expense of the Sunni Arab nationalist majority. The ...
Assad, from the Alawite offshoot of Shiite Islam, long portrayed himself as a protector of religious minorities. Now Alawites fear that their community could face a backlash because of its long ...
At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...
The dimensions/proportions of the National Flag of Canada have an exact ratio of 2 to 1 (twice as long as it is wide), and must not be modified. The National Flag of Canada should not be written on or ...
Jableh, Syria (AFP) - At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland.
Alawites account for about nine percent of Syria’s population, or around 1.7 million people. The community has been repeatedly targeted since Assad’s ouster.
Alice Gibbs is a Newsweek Senior Internet Trends & Culture Reporter based in the U.K. For the last two years she has specialized in viral trends and internet news, with a particular focus on ...
After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure minorities in multi-ethnic multi-confessional Syria that they will be protected.