JUST IN: Syria’s minorities seek security as country charts new future 

  Dec 22 – Driving into Mezzeh 86, a working-class neighbourhood in the west of Damascus, we are waved through a checkpoint manned by fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Buildings are rundown and in need of repairs. This area is dominated by people from Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members Read More