21,000 Syrian Alawites ’flee to Lebanon’ from coastal regions

21,000 Syrian Alawites ’flee to Lebanon’ from coastal regions

Over 21,000 Syrians from the country's Alawite-majority coastal regions arrived in Lebanon during the month of March, with many of them fleeing sectarian attacks carried out by rogue elements of Syria's security forces and allied Islamist forces, according to the UN Refugee Agency.  The Disaster and Crisis Management Room in Lebanon’s Akkar Governorate said that 12,798 Syrians arrived in northern Lebanon during the same month, spreading across 2…

Who Is Kidnapping Syrian Alawite Women in Broad Daylight?

“They tortured and beat us. We weren’t allowed to talk to each other, but I heard the kidnappers' accents. One had a foreign accent, the other a local one from Idlib. I could tell because they cursed us for being Alawite.”