(Wall Street Journal) Sam Dagher - Syrian President Assad lost more territory on Tuesday to Islamist insurgents and Kurdish militias. In northwest Syria along Turkey's frontier, a coalition of Islamist rebel groups captured more than a dozen villages, checkpoints and installations in a strategic area straddling Hama, Idlib and Latakia provinces. The area constitutes the first line of defense of the Alawite heartland in western Syria and its center, Latakia city.
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