Alawites
A sect centred in Syria
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| March 2025 | Nearly 13,000 Alawites crossed the Nahr al-Kabir into Lebanon to escape reported sectarian cleansing following the collapse of the Assad regime. |
| March 8 2025 | The UK-based SOHR reported a massacre of more than 750 Alawite civilians by Syrian security forces and pro-government fighters during clashes in western Syria. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa condemned the Alawite sect and urged them to surrender. |
| December 2024 | Demonstrations in Damascus occurred against the burning of a Christmas tree, with protesters chanting slogans like 'Alawite, Sunni, we want peace' and holding placards opposing religious discrimination and sectarianism. |
| December 2024 | HTS transitional authorities issued a statement about the shrine attack, claiming it occurred earlier in December and was being used by 'unknown groups' to incite unrest. |
| December 25 2024 | Thousands of Alawites protested across Syria in regions including Latakia, Tartus, Jableh, and Homs after a video surfaced showing an attack on the Al-Khasibi shrine in Aleppo's Maysaloon district. The shrine attack resulted in at least five deaths and the shrine was set on fire, following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. |
| November 2024 | Thousands of Alawites flee the city of Homs during a rapid offensive by opposition forces, heading to coastal Tartus Governorate. |
| 2023 | Increasing discontent emerges among Alawites against the Assad regime, criticizing its corruption, economic mismanagement, and disregard for civil liberties. |
| 2020 | Reports estimate around 100,000 Alawite youths were killed in combat during the Syrian civil war. |
| April 2017 | Pro-opposition source claims 150,000 young Alawites had died in the Syrian civil war. |
| 2016 | Alawite community leaders released a 'Declaration of an Alawite Identity Reform', presenting Alawism as a current 'within Islam' and attempting to distance themselves from the Sunni-Shia sectarian divide. |
| 2015 | Estimates suggest up to a third of 250,000 young Alawite men of fighting age have been killed in the war due to being disproportionately sent to fight on the frontlines. |
| May 2013 | Syrian opposition source (SOHR) reports that out of 94,000 Syrian regime soldiers killed, at least 41,000 were Alawites. |
| 2011 | An estimated 150,000 Alawites were living in Lebanon, primarily concentrated in the Jabal Mohsen neighbourhood of Tripoli and 10 villages in the Akkar District. |
| 2011 | Syrian civil war breaks out, with the Assad regime conscripting Alawite men disproportionately for frontline combat, leading to significant Alawite casualties. |
| 2011 | The Syrian civil war breaks out, ending the relative stability that existed since the 1982 Hama massacre. |
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