Future Movement MP Khodr Habib said Tuesday that he filed an appeal challenging the results ...

Edit Daily Star Lebanon 07 Jun 2016
Future Movement MP Khodr Habib said Tuesday that he filed an appeal challenging the results of last month’s Tripoli elections for failing to represent the city’s Christian and Alawite communities ... ....

Islamic State kills dozens of its own in hunt for spies

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 06 Jun 2016
BAGHDAD — In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion ... The fear of informants has fueled paranoia among the militants' ranks ... When they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death....

Daesh kills dozens of its own in search for spies

Edit Khaleej Times 05 Jun 2016
baghdad - In March, a senior commander with the Daesh group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion ... The fear of informants has fueled paranoia among the militants' ranks ... - AP ... When they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death ... ....

IS kill dozens of its own to purge spies

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016
BAGHDAD. In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion ... The fear of informants has fueled paranoia among the militants' ranks ... When they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death....

Islamic State kills dozens of its own members in hunt for spies

Edit Deccan Chronicle 05 Jun 2016
Baghdad. In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion ... Read. Iraqi forces gain ground from ISIS in Fallujah offensive ... When they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death ... The U.S ... ....

Daesh kills dozens of its own in hunt for spies

Edit Arabnews 05 Jun 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1465122995499215500. Publication Date. . Sunday, June 5, 2016. BAGHDAD ... By the time it was over, the group would kill 38 of its own members on suspicion of acting as informants ... When they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death ... His fate remains unknown ... “There is chaos ... ___ ... Middle-East. ....

ISIS is killing dozens of its own in hunt for spies

Edit New York Post 05 Jun 2016
BAGHDAD — In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion ... A mobile phone or internet connection can raise suspicions ... AP ... When they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death ... The U.S....

Rifi

Edit Daily Star Lebanon 03 Jun 2016
Resigned Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi Friday said the absence of Christians and Alawites in Tripoli's municipal council voted into office Sunday was the fault of the rival ticket ... ....

A refugee’s story: Salafists have come to radicalise us

Edit The Irish Times 01 Jun 2016
The first weeks in the port in Piraeus were tedious. One day morphed into the next. There were no days in the week. There were things to be grateful for, of course. We were alive ... We were safe. That was a consolation ... My day would start early ... It was better ... I and my friends and those thousands of others with us in AthensSunni, Alawite, Christian, Yazidi – want no part of any movement or sect that dresses hatred in the cloth of religion ... ....

Iran assumes bigger role in Syria by deploying its regular forces

Edit Asia Times 01 Jun 2016
Amid Vienna talks to end the Syrian conflict, militarization of the country continues in the name of either buttressing the incumbent Assad regime or bringing it down ... “Any undemocratic attempt to remove Assad will lead to genocide of Alawites in Syria and decrease Iran’s influence which we will not let happen no matter how much it is going to cost us,” a conservative analyst based in Iran told Financial Times ... All rights reserved....

Turkey’s Demographic Winter and Erdogan’s Duplicity

Edit Asia Times 01 Jun 2016
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded that Turkish women abandon contraception in a televised address May 30, Reuters reported. “We will multiply our descendants. They talk about population planning, birth control ... The Cardinal explained. ... The Assad family came from the Alawite minority Syria and oppressed the Sunnis, while Saddam Hussein came from the Sunni minority in Iraq and oppressed the Shi’ites ... ....

Bassil blames Rifi's rivals for Christian, Alawite absence in new Tripoli council

Edit Daily Star Lebanon 31 May 2016
Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil Tuesday blamed the coalition in Tripoli backed by former premiers Saad Hariri and Najib Mikati for the absence of Christians and Alawites in the city's new municipal council ... ....

Lebanese Sunni Hawk Wins Tripoli Vote, Risking New Tensions

Edit Voa News 30 May 2016
Preliminary results indicated that none of the 24 seats on the council were won by members of the Christian or Alawite communities which were both represented in the outgoing council ... He also called for coexistence in the city, adding that his list included Christian and Alawite candidates who had not appeared to win though the counting was not over....
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