primarily Alawites and Druze, support Assad, certainly according to conventional wisdom. Polling data such as they are indicate that a majority of the total Syrian population, not just religious ...

This has caused the military to become increasingly sectarian as the vast majority of the Syrian regime's professional officers are Alawites loyal to the Assad regime, which is mostly comprised of ...

“They are also a minority in Syria, who make a natural ally for the Alawites in their effort to counterbalance the Sunni Arab majority,” he said. “Kurds will be key to managing the Arab ...

and the small but powerful ruling Alawites. Further complicating this mix is the recent addition of roughly two million Iraq refugees, Palestinian refugees, and the growing presence of diplomats ...

At least Trump seems to actually believe what he says about immigration; he’s just too lazy to do it. Back in 2013, when Rubio nearly destroyed our country with amnesty, Trump relentlessly attacked ...

The French had promised independent states for the Druze, Alawites, Sunnis, and Maronites but in the end combined them into ...

The ‘Alawis, or Alawites, are a prominent religious minority in northern Syria, Lebanon, and southern Turkey, best known today for enjoying disproportionate political power in war-torn Syria. In this ...

Samet and Nuray hit it off, but he later suggests to his roommate Kenan that he should court her — after all, they’re both part of the minority religious sect the Alawites. As for Samet ...

This is partly because Bashar al-Assad’s own family, which has ruled for some fifty years, belongs to a minority group (Alawites), but also because, as Cardinal Zenari points out, “Syrian ...

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"If Assad falls this week, FSA needs to take the higher ground by not targeting Alawites & other minorities." Are Arizona's voters similarly fixated on Syria's internal politics? How many know or ...

No? Well, that’s Abe Hamadeh, the Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona’s 8th congressional district. (I happen to notice Hamadeh because he’s running against the excellent Blake Masters, who actually ...