Syria’s New Nightmare: Sectarian Killings Are Surging Against Alawites — the Religious Sect of Assad
‘It’s terrifying; it feels like a genocide,’ one young mother in the Latakia community tells the Sun. “I’m afraid. I’m afraid for my family.”
Reconciliation centers, like this one at Latakia, are so former conscripts of the Assad regime can sever any previous ties they had. Latakia's Alawite minority sect is from which the Assad family originates. Chris McGrath/Getty Images
