The party has the largest support of Lebanese Alawites, and its base is Tripoli, Lebanon, in the Jabal Mohsen neighbourhood.
"[5] During the Syrian Uprising, he accused anti-Syrian groups in Lebanon, such as the Future Movement, of funding and equipping Islamists in Tripoli.
[9][10] On 10 April 2014, an indictment demanded the death penalty for Rifaat Eid and three senior Jabal Mohsen fighters.
Eid's pro-Damascus Arab Democratic Party, the main faction in Jabal Mohsen, participated in more than 20 rounds of deadly sectarian fighting with gunmen from the neighboring Bab al-Tabbaneh district between 2008 and 2014.
Eid had fled the country to Syrian city of Tartous to avoid legal charges, and is still living there.