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Syria's Assad regime holds amid shattered Tartous towns
Assad's government maintains control from Damascus to Tartous as civil war scars the country. Rebels cling to pockets around the capital while IS expands across a third of Syria and Iraq. Displaced families, including Sunni traders from Aleppo, restart livelihoods in Tartous with damaged homes and rising rents.
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Tartous
Syria
Bashar Assad
Damascus
Assad
Mediterranean
Islamic State Group
Iraq
Bab Touma
Jobar
Nabak
Lulu
Mustafa Sobhi
Faten Shaar
Sobhi
Aleppo
Majed
Mohammed Jallad