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Syria sectarian divide turns to fear and flight

August 28th, 2012

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 file photo, Fatimah Ali, an elderly Syrian who fled her home in Aleppo with her family due to fighting between the rebels and the Syrian army, rests at a desk in a school where she and her family took refuge in Suran, Syria. As sectarian slayings have swelled between Syria's Sunni majority and the Alawite minority during the country's 17-month-old conflict, so has the segregation of the two communities as they flee each other. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)Abu Qais, a Sunni Muslim in Syria's capital Damascus, says six members of his extended family have been killed by gunmen who belong to the minority Alawite sect of President Bashar Assad.

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