Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

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and green Kurdish flags and chanting slogans as they watched Ocalan's letter being read out on big screens by members of the delegation that visited him. Reactions were divided, with some ...