Assad's Alawite heartland fears reckoning

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Fear of a reckoning simmers in Assad's Alawite heartland

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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is Syria 's de-facto rulers, and the new law in town.

Alawite, the minority sect from which the Assad family originates, is fearful of a reckoning.

The Sunni Islamist HTS has pledged to respect all religions in Syria .

Some people haven't even left their homes since regime change because they worry that there will be a reckoning, and that they will have to pay a heavy price for the support of the old regime.

Latakia is a city liberated, but in Alawite areas, there are fewer new flags in evidence.

The new Syrian flag, with its green instead of red stripe, is commonplace on shop shutters and hanging from balconies.

Three HTS fighters were killed, and 14 injured outside the city, in what it said was gun battle with a criminal gang.

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