Posts Tagged: Alawites
Syria Imposes Curfew in Latakia Days After Protests Turn Violent, State Media Reports
Syrian security forces imposed a curfew on Latakia city, a bastion of the country's Alawite minority, state media reported on Tuesday, days after four people were killed in protests that spiraled into violence. Syria has been rocked...
Explosion at Alawite Mosque in Syria’s Homs Kills Eight
Eight people were killed in an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, Syrian state news agency...
Syrian Security Forces Use Gunfire to Disperse Rival Protests in Alawite Heartland
Syrian security forces used gunfire on Tuesday to break up two rival groups of demonstrators in the coastal town of Latakia, heartland of the country's...
War Crimes Likely Committed in Syria’s Coastal Massacres, UN Commission Finds
War crimes were likely committed by interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to Syria's former rulers during sectarian violence that culminated in a series of massacres in March, UN...
Stay Out of the Syrian Morass
As the Syrian government makes increasingly desperate and vicious efforts to keep power, pleas for military intervention, more or less on the Libyan...
Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files, Israel Day 29: Mossad-Saudi Cooperation
Since February 27, 2012, WikiLeaks has continued releasing what it says will eventually be 5 million e-mails sent between July 2004 and late December 2011...
The Middle East’s Real Apartheid
In light of Israel Apartheid Week, which hit cities and campuses throughout the world recently, supporters of the Jewish state find it difficult to agree...
The Syria Mess and Secretary Clinton’s Flawed Responses
Speaking at the UN Security Council last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared, "It is time for the international community to put aside our...
Assad’s Alawi Allies
The Saudi-owned Arabic daily Asharq Alawsat published an analysis by a Jordanian commentator last week that asked an important question: How has Bashar Assad continued...
The Coming Opportunity
Should the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN fail to produce any tangible results, then the current events in Syria might have the unexpected...
