forcing Bashar to flee and ending nearly five decades of the Assad dynastic rule. Finally rid of the Assads, Bilal brought out the portraits of his slain family for the first time and hung them on ...

The Alawite minority, a branch of Shia Islam followed by the Assad family, makes up about 10 percent ... 07 March 2025. EFE-EPA/BILAL AL HAMMOUD The community is concentrated in the coastal ...

Bilal Al Hammoud/EPA ... The family is Alawite, a religious minority to which the ousted Assad family belong. Under the Assad government, Alawites dominated the ruling class and upper ranks ...

Syria's new government is struggling to impose order in a country where some are settling scores. Sunni Arab fighters have killed members of the same religious sect as the deposed president.

BILAL: (Speaking Arabic). ARRAF: The residents of Miryamin are mostly Alawite, an offshoot of Shia Islam, and the same sect as toppled President Bashar al-Assad ... The family blames the new ...

At least 70 people killed in multiple clashes spreading across the coast of the Arab country, which the Damascus government attributes to former followers of the ousted dictator Bashar Assad.

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Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

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