| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Hezbollah and Tehran back Assad, whose Alawite minority is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, while Sunni Muslim states such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have stepped up support for the mainly Sunni rebels.Radical Sunni militants from abroad, some of them linked to al-Qaeda, are also coming in to fight alongside the rebels.Jordan's King Abdullah said the war could ignite conflict across the Middle
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