PrintThe very rapid collapse of the Assad regime is probably a source of some relief for concerns that the Syrian war would ultimately devolve into large scale, tit-for-tat sectarian massacres between Syrian Sunni Arabs (the demographic majority) and Alawite Arabs (the minority from which the Assad dynasty came). Some massacres on a sect basis did occur during the war between the Assad regime and insurgency (e.g. the Baniyas massacre of Sunni Arabs in 2013, and killings of Alawites in Latakia countryside in 2013 and in the Idlib village of Ishtabraq in 2015), but the final rapid demise meant that we did not see scenarios such as street-to-street fighting in Homs city or a final last stand for the Assad regime and any Alawites remaining to defend it along Syria's coastal regions, which could have indeed resulted in a bloody end.
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