A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world. Damascus between the Druze, Alawites, and ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

March 2025More than 1,400 people died in March in attacks on security forces and subsequent mass killings of Alawites, a ...

Dr Nassar grew up in Latakia on Syria’s Mediterranean coast alongside Alawites, a religious minority in Syria which originates from Shia Islam. He condemned the massacres that took place in March in ...

It’s true that Bashar al-Assad left the palace on the evening of Saturday, December 7, and that Ahmad al-Sharaa entered it the next day without a single shot being fired in the capital. It’s a rare ...

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Alawites make up about 10% of Syria’s population of 24 million, living mostly along the country’s Mediterranean coast and nearby hilly countryside. They have long kept the details of their ...

A Syrian fact-finding committee said on Tuesday that 1,426 people, including 90 women, were killed during the March 7-9 ...

Attacks spread along the coast Attacks on Alawites spread from Latakia into the nearby province of Tartus, with some later hitting the major city of Homs inland. Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the ...

The Alawites, who began centuries ago as a religious movement that some people of Western Syria chose to join, became an ethnic group, a development not uncommon in the Middle East.

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.

Militias target Alawites Rights groups reported widespread revenge killings as militants from Syria's Sunni majority targeted Alawites, regardless of whether they were involved in the insurgency.