LATAKIA, Syria (AFP) -- At least three people were killed Sunday during Alawite protests in western Syria, health authorities said, as thousands took to the streets across the religious minority's heartland following a deadly mosque bombing.
Thousands in coastal provinces and central Syria participated in demonstrations called by a religious authority to protest the mosque attack in Homs Friday that killed eight people and reignited minorities' fears under the new Islamist authorities.
War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian security forces shot and killed two people in the predominantly Alawite province of Latakia while dispersing a protest by member
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