Assad’s Alawites: An entrenched community

Nir Rosen spends time deep inside Syria’s pro-regime Alawite community. This is the second of a two-part series by Al Jazeera special correspondent Nir Rosen. Catch up with the first chapter here: Assad’s Alawites: The guardians of the throne. Driving near the high-altitude resort of Slonfeh in the Alawite mountains of the Latakia region, I passed a funeral tent for a Syrian soldier killed in the