Syria’s Alawites mourn their dead after revenge attacks

At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine’s garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria’s Alawite minority heartland.After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure minorities in multi-ethnic multi-confessional Syria that they will be protected…
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