In post-Assad Syria's chaos, Alawite women face sexual violence

In post-Assad Syria's chaos, Alawite women face sexual violence

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — The woman, a member of Syria‘s Alawite religious minority, was walking home on a sunny July day in her town on the Mediterranean coast when three gunmen stopped her and pulled her into their van. It was the start of a week of torment. They drove her to a town in northern Syria three hours away, where they locked her in a room in an abandoned building. Over the coming days she was raped twice, she told The Associated Press. …