Minorities had hoped to break into Syria’s new political order in the weekend vote but few succeeded

Latakia, an idyllic city perched on the Mediterranean coast and a summer tourist destination, is also a former stronghold of the Assad family that ruled the country for 50 years and a center of the Alawite sect — an offshoot of Shiite Islam — to which they belong. After Assad’s ouster in December i...

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