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Syria: religious diversity collateral damage of ongoing fighting in the Latikia region

Olivesi, MarineJanuary 30, 2013

Syria's Latakia region does not get much coverage in media reporting about the ongoing fighting in the country. Latakia in is the historic capital of the country’s Alawite sect and a power base of the Assad family. Reporter Marine Olivesi traveled to the region and found opposition forces are chipping away at the Assad regime, with religious diversity a collateral damage in the ongoing fighting.

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Report: Marine Olivesi