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Tartous, Syria - A gunman leads the funeral procession of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, through the streets, as mourners chant slogans praising President Bashar Assad. They are from Assad's Alawite sect. Tartous' Alawites are fanaticallty devoted to Assad and thousands have died fighting for him in the civil war.
Tartous, Syria - Young men chant slogans praising President Bashar Assad during the furneral procession of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels. They are from Assad's Alawite sect. Tartous' Alawites are fanatically devoted to Assad and thousands have died fighting for him in the civil war.
Tartous, Syria - Relatives and friends of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, carry his coffin through the streets, chanting slogans praising President Bashar Assad. They are from Assad's Alawite sect. Tartous' Alawites are fanaticallty devoted to Assad and thousands have died fighting for him in the civil war.
Tartous, Syria - Relatives and friends of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, carry his coffin through the streets, chanting slogans praising President Bashar Assad. They are from Assad's Alawite sect. Tartous' Alawites are fanaticallty devoted to Assad and thousands have died fighting for him in the civil war.
Tartous, Syria - Relatives and friends of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, carry his coffin through the streets, chanting slogans praising President Bashar Assad. They are from Assad's Alawite sect. Tartous' Alawites are fanaticallty devoted to Assad and thousands have died fighting for him in the civil war.
Tartous, Syria - Relatives and friends of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, carry his coffin and a poster of President Bashar Assad through the streets. They are from Assad's Alawite sect. Tartous' Alawites are fanaticallty devoted to Assad and thousands have died fighting for him in the civil war.
Tartous, Syria - Mourners carry the Syrian flag-drapped coffin of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, to his grave in an unused plot of land owned by the city. So many young men from Tartous, which is fanatically loyal to President Bashar Assad, have been killed fighting in Syria's civil war that there is no more room in the citys' cemetaries.
Tartous, Syria - Two people watch from a balcony as the funeral procession of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, passes below. They are standing above a poster eulogising another dead soldier. Issa was from Assad's Alawite sect. Tartous' Alawites are fanaticallty devoted to Assad and thousands have died fighting for him in the civil war.
Tartous, Syria - Mourners lower the coffin of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, into his grave in an unused plot of land owned by the city. So many young men from Tartous, which is fanatically loyal to President Bashar Assad, have been killed fighting in Syria's civil war that there is no more room in the city's cemetaries.
Tartous, Syria - Mourners pray over the coffin of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, near his grave in an unused plot of city-owned land. So many young men from Tartous, which is fanatically loyal to President Bashar Assad, have been killed fighting in Syria's civil war that there is no more room in the city's cemetaries.
Tartous, Syria - Posters eulogising members of the city's large Alawite community killed in the civil war plaster a wall. President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Islam's Shiite branch, dominates his regime. Tartous' Alawites are fanatically loyal to Assad.
Tartous, Syria - A relative of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels, mourns by his grave in an unused plot of land owned by the city. So many young men from Tartous, which is fanatically loyal to President Bashar Assad, have been killed fighting in Syria's civil war that there is no more room in the citys' cemetaries.
Tartous, Syria - Mourners stretch a large Syrian flag over the grave of Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels.
Tartous, Syria Army boots wreathed in plastic ivy and stuffed with plastic flowers are mounted on medium strings to commemorate the thousands of local soldiers killed fighting for President Bashar Assad. Tartous is a stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect.
Tartous, Syria - Reema Hassan, 22, a Syrian flag drapped over her head, is overcome with grief as she mourns her late husband, Ibrahim Yeya Issa, a 32-year-old Army soldier killed fighting Islamist rebels.
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