Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara has warned against federalism and called on the country’s different factions to unite, nearly a year after the overthrow of the regime of Bashar Al Assad.
“National unity is a fundamental pillar and indispensable,” Mr Al Shara said in a phone call with the governor of the coastal province of Latakia, the scene of several episodes of sectarian violence this year.
“The time has now come to put an end to divisions sown in the minds of Syrians for over 60 years,” he said.
For more than 50 years, Syria was ruled by the Assad family, who come from the Alawite minority group. Some Alawites prospered under the rule of the Assads.
Since the fall of the Assads, there have been incidents of ant
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