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- Assad is Shiite (the Alawite branch), a minority in Syria. Iran is overwhelmingly Shiite and supports Assad.
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The Alawites are the third largest religious group in Syria, after the Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. Hafez al-Assad and his son, President Bashar al-Assad , belong to the Alawite sect. [9] Alawites are divided into two main groups: traditional Alawites, who form the majority, and the minority Murshid Alawites (which rose from a modern schism in the ...
Jul 30, 2019 · Updated on July 30, 2019. The differences between Alawites and Sunnis in Syria have sharpened dangerously since the beginning of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, whose family is Alawite.
Dec 7, 2013 · Is It Really Sunni vs. Shia In Syria?. As civil war continues in Syria, the conflict has brought out ever deeper sectarian divides. Many Sunnis oppose the government while Shiite Muslims and other minorities tend to support it, causing...
During Hafez Assad's time, an Iranian delegation arrived in Syria and attempted to convert some of the Muslim Alawite Syrians to Shia Islam... Assad ordered his minister of foreign Affairs to summon the Iranian ambassador to deliver an ultimatum: The delegation has 24 hours to exit Syria....
Dec 18, 2015 · Assad succeeded his father as authoritarian leader of Syria in 2000. He responded to peaceful Arab Spring protesters in 2011 with a crackdown so brutal that it sparked an armed revolt that...
Struggles between Sunni and Shia forces have fed a Syrian civil war that threatens to transform the map of the Middle East, spurred violence that is fracturing Iraq, and widened fissures in a...
Jun 28, 2018 · Middle East and Africa | The future of Syria. How a victorious Bashar al-Assad is changing Syria. Sunnis have been pushed out by the war. The new Syria is smaller, in ruins and more...
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