'You started this': Attacks on Alawites in Syria highlights deep divisions
The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his ...
Christian watch group rises up to protect community amid growing violence in Syria
The Eagles of Antioch is a group of volunteers who stand watch over Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, protecting shrines, ...
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‘Don’t trust anyone’: Have Syria’s Alawites lost faith in new government?
The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a ...
Killings in Syrian village foreshadowed flare-up of sectarian violence
The bloodletting between Alawites and forces backing Syria’s new government surprised many. But tensions had been building ...
What's driving killings in Syria and who are the Alawites?
Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...
‘Pray for us. They’ve arrived’: How Syria descended into revenge bloodshed
The cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6. Dozens of messages posted by various armed factions on social media, ...
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Exclusive: Syria's Latakia province still reeling from massacres of Alawites
Our Syria correspondents travelled to the country's western coastal province of Latakia, which was the scene of shocking ...
In Syria's coastal villages, the Alawite community feels abandoned by the new authorities: 'We want the attackers to be punished'
Between March 7 and 9, the towns of al-Sanobar and Huraysun were taken over by Islamist factions allied with the new Syrian ...
French Foreign Minister Proposes Sanctions on Those Behind Attacks Against Syria's Alawites
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday that he had proposed at a European Union meeting ...
‘Do not leave any Alawites alive’: call to prevent genocide in Syria
A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...
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Syria opens probe into killings targeting Alawite minority group
Syria’s government on Sunday announced a probe after the killing of Alawite civilians triggered an international backlash against the worst violence since Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow. In its ...