How Violence Erupted On Syria’s Coast

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How Violence Erupted On Syria’s Coast

Sunday 20th April 2025, 4:01AM

Massacres have spread across once-quiet towns on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, in the deadliest outbreak of sectarian violence since rebels toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Christina Goldbaum, The New York Times’s bureau chief in Syria, traveled to the area to get a sense of who was responsible.

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