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HOMS, Syria — Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the Syrian rebel group that overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government, was named head of a new interim government, according to the Syrian news agency ...

In a part of Syria that had been a stronghold of deposed dictator Bashar Al-Assad, there has been a wave of violence against Alawites, the religious minority of the Assad family.

For decades Syria has been a factor in most Middle Eastern conflicts from the Arab-Israeli wars to internecine religious and ethnic violence that stretched from Lebanon’s shores to Iraq’s deserts.