Part 4 of our series on the Syrian civil war focuses on the history of the Alawites, a bizarre and minor Islamic sect that spent most of its 1100 year history being oppressed (and beheaded) by the Sunni majority - until Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite, became the President of Syria in 1970. They were originally [...]

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