Agence France-Presse on MSN3d
From Lebanon refuge, trauma scars Syria's minority Alawites
When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
Al Jazeera English5d
‘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 religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad ...
Syria's infernal cycle of revenge: 'I don't trust men from my own community'
After the killings targeting the Alawite community, Syrian society is struggling to extricate itself from the crimes of the ...
Analysis: Lebanon-Syria border clashes raise the alarm
The deadly clashes that erupted this week in an area between Lebanon and Syria have brought historical border issues and ...
The Republic3d
Yet another threat to the ancient churches of Syria
In the Triumph of Orthodoxy service on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the clergy and faithful proclaim – with many shouting ...
CounterPunch1d
The Ethnic and Sectarian Hues of Mourning
The Syrian regime’s brutal response to protests with bullets set this grim reality in motion: from the very beginning of the Syrian uprising (March 2011) ...