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Though they largely put down the putsch, many then turned their wrath on Alawites, a largely impoverished minority that constitutes some 10% of the country’s population and which dominated Assad-era security services and state bureaucracy.

County sheriff’s deputies drive down some streets with loudspeakers urging people to flee around 2 a.m. — more than an hour before the 3:30 a.m. alert was issued.

“Things don’t just sink down — they also get lifted up.”

Civil society organizations are using the courts to slow down some of the Trump administration’s most egregious assaults on the rule of law and the Constitution.

He lasted just a year in the role, stepping down in April last year after a decision to rip up a power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens left him facing a vote of no confidence.