Al-Rahy, a landscape worker and Alawite activist, was repairing damage in his brother’s house in this village after it was looted in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.

Nisrine Ezzedine sits in her garden where her husband, son and nephew are buried — OMAR HAJ KADOUR At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and ...