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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Alawites

Syrian Alawite families who fled the clashes in Syria hold their luggages as they cross a river marking the border between Syria and northern Lebanon near the village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province, Lebanon, March 11, 2025. (Hussein Malla/AP)
April 15, 2025, 12:15 pm
Fearful Syria’s Alawites still face attacks a month after wave of deadly violence
Members of former ruling minority say Sunni vengeance against ousted regime has continued, as tens of thousands flee to neighboring Lebanon
By BASSEM MROUE and Kareem Chehayeb
A member of the Syrian forces stands on a vehicle during deadly violence in which some 1,500 members of Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect were killed, in Latakia, Syria, March 7, 2025. (Karam al-Masri/Reuters)
March 24, 2025, 4:04 pm
Investigating their own killings: Alawites claim the new regime was behind massacre
Messages from survivors of the sectarian violence in which over 1,500 civilians were killed describe methodical carnage, decry the duplicity of Syria’s new leadership
By Nurit Yohanan
Syrian attend the funeral of a relative, killed in the days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the former government, in the town of Jableh in the coastal province of Latakia on March 10, 2025. (Photo by Abdulwajed HAJ ESTEIFI / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 8:22 pm
Sa’ar urges global leaders to denounce ‘pure evil’ of Sharaa’s Syria after killings
Foreign minister says Israel’s warnings over new Islamist rulers were accurate after over 1,000 killed in Alawite enclave; Sharaa dismisses Israel’s accusations as ‘nonsense’
By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 8, 2025, shows Syrian forces manning a checkpoint in the coastal city of Latakia. (SANA/AFP)
March 8, 2025, 3:57 pm
745 civilians killed in clashes between Syrian regime and pro-Assad forces, says watchdog
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights describes killings of Alawites as ‘executions’ accompanied by looting; women and children among victims
By AFP and ToI Staff
This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows members of the Syrian security forces entering the western city of Baniyas in Syria's coastal Tartous province to reinforce government troops in clashes with militants loyal to deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by SANA / AFP)
March 7, 2025, 9:27 pm
Katz calls new Syria president an ‘al-Qaeda terrorist’ after reports Alawites executed
Harsh statement comes as rights group says government-affiliated forces executed at least 90 Alawites as they move to crush a nascent insurgency by Assad loyalists
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: People visit the Arab village of Ghajar, located between Lebanon and Israel in northern Israel, October 14, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
February 2, 2025, 9:20 pm
As Alawite village on Israel-Lebanon border reopens, locals fear for relatives in Syria
After enduring decades of isolation amid border disputes, residents of Ghajar are focused on their Syrian kin, who face retribution for belonging to sect of deposed leader Assad
By Diana Bletter
Children on the top of an ousted Syrian government forces tank that was left on a street in an Alawite neighborhood, in Homs, Syria, December 26, 2024. (AP Photo/ Leo Correa)
December 27, 2024, 1:44 pm
Syria’s Homs settles into uneasy calm after brief eruption of sectarian violence
Security forces flood major mixed city, patrolling and checking IDs, days after gunfire at protest by members of Alawite minority; Christians say new regime protecting churches
By ABBY SEWELL
Security forces deploy outside the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St George during the Christmas morning mass in Syria's western coastal city of Latakia on December 25, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
December 26, 2024, 4:52 pm
New Syrian regime declares crackdown in coastal region after 14 policemen killed
Security forces launch operation in Alawite-majority Tartus region, erstwhile stronghold of fallen Assad government, after attack on police blamed on Assad supporters
By Reuters
A damaged poster of the late Syrian president Hafez Assad is seen above the stands of a stadium that was used by the army of ousted president Bashar al-Assad as a military post, in Damascus, Syria, December 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
December 19, 2024, 4:30 pm
Once the power holders under Assad, Syria’s Alawites now fear for their fates
Deposed leader’s minority sect now gripped by uncertainty and worry over reprisals from country’s other 90%, amid looming risk of Muslim extremism
By Gianluca Pacchiani
People visit the Arab village of Ghajar, located between Lebanon and Israel in northern Israel, October 14, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
January 30, 2023, 2:48 am
Entry restrictions lifted, isolated village on Lebanon border is now tourist hotspot
For decades, Ghajar, the only Israeli community of Alawites, was out of bounds for residents from the rest of the country; with ban canceled, visitors are flocking in
By Hillel Kuttler
Pro-government supporters and regime forces attend a flag raising ceremony at the entrance of the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood on the southern outskirts of the capital Damascus on May 24, 2018 (AFP/Louai Beshara)
May 25, 2018, 4:12 pm
War, displacement reshuffle Syria’s demographic map
Assad’s minority Alawite regime has long ruled over Sunni-majority, but country is now still more divided after 11 million driven from homes
By Maya Gebeily and Rouba El Husseini
An aerial view of the word "Peace" in Arabic painted on the roofs of 85 buildings in Tripoli's Syria street which separates the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh from the Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen. The project has been three years in the making, with the artists, 34-year-old twins Mohamed and Omar Kabbani, researching and rejecting multiple locations in their native Lebanon before settling on Tripoli. (AFP PHOTO / ASHEKMAN / Handout)
October 21, 2017, 7:30 am
Art brings ‘Peace’ to battle-scarred Lebanon districts
Painting project on Tripoli’s rooftops will spell out the word ‘salam’ on a scale visible from space
By Sara Hussein
In this Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 file photo, relatives and comrades pray as they surround the Hezbollah flag-draped coffins of Shiite fighters who were killed in Syria, during a rally to mark the 13th day of the Shiite mourning period of Muharram, in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)
July 12, 2016, 8:44 pm
Hezbollah finds fighting in Syria less popular than battling Israel
A decade after waging war against the Jewish state, support for Bashar Assad in Syria is bleeding the Lebanese Shiite group and discontent over its intervention is growing
By Zeina Karam and Bassam Mroue
Members of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service flash the "V" for victory sign on December 29, 2015 in the city of Ramadi after Iraqi forces recaptured it from the Islamic State jihadist group. AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
May 28, 2016, 5:31 am
If Islamic State loses Fallujah and Raqqa, the ‘caliphate’ will be over
Attacked on numerous fronts, the brutal jihadist group is no longer certain to survive; it may ultimately become ‘just’ another evil terrorist organization
By Avi Issacharoff
Syrians gather at the site of multiple bombings that left tens dead in the northern coastal city of Jableh, between Latakia and Tartus, Syria, May 23, 2016. (AFP)
May 23, 2016, 1:25 pm
Bombs kill more than 100 in Syria regime strongholds
Islamic State says it targeted ‘Alawite gatherings’ in cities of Jableh and Tartus; bus stations and hospital hit
By AFP
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