Alawite

Syria's Alawites should embrace 'Zionism,' Israel amid Bundism's failure - opinion

Alawite “Zionism”: A movement of collective self-preservation, self-defense, and cultural revival. Alawite “Bundism”: A movement to embrace assimilation into pan-Arabism.

|ByMOSHE SHELEST
People from the Alawite sect protest as they demand federalism and an end to what they say is the killing and violations against Alawites, in Latakia, Syria, December 28, 2025
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the Ministry of Awqaf conference titled "Unity of Islamic Discourse" at the Conference Palace in Damascus, Syria, February 16, 2026.

UN probe: Syrian minorities face kidnappings, rape, and arbitrary detention

A UN report reveals that Syria's new government has failed to stop human rights abuses, including abductions, sexual violence, and arbitrary detentions, despite efforts for accountability.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A MEMBER of the Kurdish Internal Security Forces rides on a car, while vehicles of the internal security forces of the Syrian government arrive in the city of Qamishli during the curfew, following an agreement between the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian government on Tuesday.

Syria’s Sunni Islamist regime consolidates power, ending Kurdish autonomy

BEHIND THE LINES: The arrival of Syrian forces to Qamishli sets the seal on the effective demise of the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).

|ByJONATHAN SPYER
A Kurdish internal security forces member stands guard with a weapon as Syrian Kurds attend a protest in solidarity with the people in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in Aleppo, in Hasakah, Syria January 7, 2026.

'October 7 moment for Kurds': Israel must assist Syria's Kurds amid attacks, analysts tell 'Post'

Over the last decade, the SDF worked with the US and defeated ISIS in Syria. However, now the SDF is facing major setbacks, and Kurds fear they may be massacred.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Silence speaks volumes: Media coverage of Syrian Alawite killings must be criticized - editorial

This is exactly the kind of violence that should have international media splashing over, but it didn’t get the attention it deserves.

MARCH 12, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL
A man assists a those who fled the violence in western Syria, at the Nahr El Kabir River. March 11, 2025.

Alawite Syrians to 'Post': We need Israel's help from jihadist atrocities - exclusive

“Al-Sharaa’s forces are carrying out ethnic cleansing against the ‘infidels,’” a Syrian Alawite told the Jerusalem Post

MARCH 11, 2025ByOHAD MERLIN
A man receives a blanketed child from another crossing the Nahr al-Kabir river, forming the border between Syria's western Latakia province and northern Lebanon in the Hekr al-Daher area on March 11, 2025, as families from Syria's Alawite minority enter Lebanon to flee from sectarian violence