If your sectarian affiliation harms your national affiliation, leave the sect and give priority to the homeland,’ Imam Zulfikar Fadil Gazal tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

The residents, members of the Alawite minority, now say their excitement has been replaced by fear. Masked men have terrorized the village, beating people, looting homes and using anti-Alawite slurs.

Imam Zulfikar Fadil Gazal, a respected leader within Syria's Alawite community, has called for unity centered on national ...

The hillside village lies near the city of Tartus, in the heartland of Syria’s Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam from which the Assads hail. Pictures of Bashar al-Assad, the ousted dictator ...

Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia Islam, and the people of his former region fear the new Sunni-controlled government will target them. Leila Molana-Allen reports from Assad ...