Assad also tried to downplay the differences between the Alawite minority and the Muslim majority. "He built mosques in Alawite towns, prayed publicly and fasted, and encouraged his people to do ...

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 ...

The title of the video accuses the mosque of being tied to a pro-Assad Alawite militia, but there is no indication in the video what connection, if any, there may have been between the two.

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in Syria over a video showing an attack on an Alawite shrine, with a war monitor saying one demonstrator was killed in Homs city. In an unrelated incident in ...

The residents, members of the Alawite minority, now say their excitement has been replaced by fear.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.

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.

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

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 ...

Alawites — whom Assad recruited as military ... “They burned our shrine,” he said. “We will burn mosques.” At the height of his power, Ali commanded at least 200 men, had a vast arsenal ...