Syria tries suspects for violence in Alawite-majority coastal regions
The defendants include “detainees on charges of inciting sectarian strife, theft, and assaulting the internal security forces and the Syrian Arab Army,” said state media.
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Syrian Alawite leader calls Damascus government ‘terrorist, sectarian’
Syria's minority Alawite population has experienced bouts of violence at the hands of forces affiliated with the Damascus government following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December, who, as an Alawite himself, privileged and protected his confessional group.
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