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October 3, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/as-civil-war-rages-across-syria-assad-s-own-community-may-pose-new-challenge-for-regime-1.467904

Report: Fighting within Syria's Alawite Community

(Ha'aretz) Jack Khoury - In the past few days violence has been raging among different Alawite clans in the city of Kardaha, located in the Alawite mountains in the country's northwest. Assad is of Alawite descent. Mohammad al-Assad, leader of the regime's Shabiha organization, was reportedly killed.

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