PBS News Hour - World: Syria's once-empowered Alawite minority faces uncertain future after fall of Assad

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As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia Islam, and the people of his former region fear the new Sunni-controlled government will target them. Leila Molana-Allen reports from Assad's hometown, a crumbling vestige of the regime. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Episode: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/syrias-once-empowered-alawite-minority-faces-uncertain-future-after-fall-of-assad

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