Syria descends into violence: Who are the Alawites who are being killed in hundreds?
At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads belong to this sect,
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Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...
Alawites constitute Syria’s largest minority and account for about 10 per cent of the population. The Assad connection has ...
Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...
More than 1,300 dead in a few days - US condemns "Islamist terrorists & foreign jihadists who murder civilians" - Turkey ...
Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...
While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...
Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...
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Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa forms committees to investigate the recent waves of violence between security ...
Reports of massacres of civilian s in Syria’s Latakia are a major test for the new government of Syria. Since the fall of the ...
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