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On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Bashar al-Assad sold them a destructive narrative of existential struggle.

Assad's recent ouster, ethnic Syrian Alawites have found themselves increasingly anxious over the future under HTS rule, ...

Surprising many, protests have emerged in Alawite areas without sparking sectarian violence. With newfound relief, Alawites in regions like Homs cautiously embraced the rebels' restrained approach, ...

The Alawites leveraged that first mover advantage to initially monopolize the bureaucratic structure, and then to seize political power. But Syria is 75 per cent Sunni. Further, many Muslim ...

With the Sunni Muslim rebels now in control, the HTS administration has issued statements seeking to assure the Shi'ite Alawites and other Syrian minorities. One statement urged the Alawites to be ...

Also Read: Syria's 13-year civil war: Timeline of key events since 2011 - What you should know The Assad family came from the Shia minority sect of Alawites. Shias are only around 13 per cent of the ...