Syria’s deadliest clashes since Assad’s fall: What’s behind the bloodshed?

Syria’s deadliest clashes since Assad’s fall: What’s behind the bloodshed?

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday. The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government’s security forces against fighters from Assad’s Alawite minority. The dead include hundreds of Alawite civilians, whom the Syrian…

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