Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.
A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting preexisting divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.
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A volunteer in the Kurdish Community Protection Forces checks her rifle as she guards wheat fields from fire or looting ...