The challenge facing Syria's Alawites
The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites ...
Syria’s Alawites, Sect of the Assads, Fear for Their Future
They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...
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Fear grips Alawites in Syria's Homs as Assad 'remnants' targeted
In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...
Syrian Christians want their identity and freedoms protected in any new constitution, envoy says
As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international envoy says Christians and ...
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'Syrian above all': The Alawite community refuses to pay for Assad's crimes
From our special correspondent in Syria – A month after Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed, Syria's Alawite minority, which served as the regime's backbone, fears a witch hunt. In their ...
Lessons from Syria’s volatile past for its uncertain future
Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...
Syria shouldn’t repeat the mistakes of Iraq’s hasty post-Saddam elections
Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...
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A short history of Syria, in maps
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...