After Assad, Syria’s Alawites Test the New Order

Foreign Affairs

After Assad, Syria’s Alawites Test the New Order

Can the new state serve all Syrians?

Syria Bashar al-Assad Credit: Jordan Allott

On the morning the regime fell, Rashid Saad left his house before dawn and stepped onto the road outside Al-Rusafa, a village in Syria’s Alawite heartland along the Mediterranean coast. Cars clogged the road in every direction...