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The Assad regime had attempted to supplant the Alawite religious identity. Bashar al-Assad attempted to integrate Alawites into Sunni Islam as to alleviate Sunni opposition to his rule, while Hafez al-Assad entirely dismissed the Alawite faith as simply Twelver Shi'ism. Alawites insisted that they were a distinct Islamic sect, while accusing ...
Alawites [b] are an Arab [17] [18] ethnoreligious group [19] who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism. [20] A sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ghulat branch during the ninth century, [21] [22] [23] Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as a manifestation of the divine essence.
Bashar al-Assad was born in Damascus on 11 September 1965, as the second son and third child of Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad. [ 19 ] " al-Assad " in Arabic means " the lion ". Assad's paternal grandfather, Ali al-Assad , had managed to change his status from peasant to minor notable and, to reflect this, in 1927 he had changed the family ...
Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster ...
He is a Sunni Muslim, part of Syria’s majority. Assad was an Alawite. There are Christians, Druze, Shia Muslims, Ismailis and more. Yet the words he chose appeared intended to break those old ...
The drive against Assad has been led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham under Abu Mohammed al-Golani. His movement began life as a branch of Islamic State and al-Qaeda but formally split from the latter in 2016.
After Hafez al-Assad's death in 2000, Bashar al-Assad continued the relationship by supporting Hezbollah and various Iranian proxies; with the alliance being described as "the central component of his security doctrine". [33] [34] Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi alongside Assad in Damascus, May 2023
DOHA (Reuters) -The ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after rebel forces swept into Damascus this weekend, shattered Iran's network of influence in the Middle East but Israel, the United ...