March 27, 2025 3:15 PM

Syria’s sectarian violence reached capital, terrorizing Alawites

Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite families in the capital Damascus and detained more than two dozen unarmed men, according to a dozen witnesses. Those taken from the neighbourhood of al-Qadam included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad. A group of Alawites loyal to Assad had launched a fledgling insurgency h...