After Assad, Syria’s Alawites Test the New Order

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, overloaded with people and their belongings. It was bitterly cold, but tha…