Only the Alawites look shomehow white (see Assad himself) but they are a small part of the population and most of them stayed in Syria.
One of my favorite media propaganda in this Syrian War is the myth that all the Sunnis wanted to overthrow Assad because he is Alawite. What they neglected to mention was that over 75% of Syrian regular forces of the SAA are Sunni.
Also to the OP, the North-Africans looks very similar to them see
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