Alawite

Syrian Alawites accuse aid organizations of diverting UN assistance to militias

Photos of armed gangs patrolling UN aid distribution points and posts by SARC aid workers supporting the massacre of ethnic and religious minorities in Syria were shared with the Post.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Men inspect trucks carrying aid from UN World Food Programme (WFP), following a deadly earthquake, at Bab al-Hawa crossing, Syria February 20, 2023.
ISLAMIC STATE fighters wave jihadist flags in Raqqa, Syria, in June 2014. The persecution of religious and ethnic minorities by jihadist movements has prompted efforts to unite threatened communities, including Jews, Christians, Yazidis, and others, against a common enemy.

‘They don't have to fight alone’: Why victims of jihadism are turning to the Jews

TERROR AFFAIRS: Jewish activist Charles Jacobs has launched a global coalition bringing together Jews, Christians, Yazidis and other minorities facing jihadist persecution.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A Syrian refugee wears a scarf reading 'Freedom' while taking part in a demonstration in Athens calling for women rights on March 8, 2017, marking the International Women's Day.

Syria's Alawite women face rape, abduction, forced marriage amid state complicity, report finds

A human rights report alleges that Alawite women in Syria face systematic rape, abduction, and forced marriage, with authorities accused of obstructing investigations and protecting perpetrators.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags and chant against Israel’s and America’s war with Iran in front of the Israeli embassy in Portugal in May.

A new generation has risen, one that ‘does not know Joseph’ - opinion

Twenty-five years after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Western youngsters, ignorant of the jihadist assault, have forgotten how dangerous Islamic extremism can be

|ByCHARLES JACOBS, WALID PHARES

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