US EditionSyrian Government-Linked Actors Brutally Massacred Members Of Minority Group, Investigation Finds
- An escalation of violence began with the killing of Sheikh Shaabaan Mansour, resulting in at least 973 civilian deaths since March 6, described by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as "ethnic cleansing operations."
- A coalition of fighters attacked Abu Mohammad al-Julani's forces, leading to casualties and prompting reinforcements from al-Julani's government.
- Reports indicate that roughly 1,500 Alawites were massacred by groups linked to the new Syrian government in the aftermath of violence beginning on March 6, 2025.
- Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa condemned the violence and established a committee to investigate the events.
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Formations that depend on the new Syrian government are among the groups that killed about 1,500 people between 7 and 9 March in the Latakia region.
How Syrian government forces and factions are linked to the mass killings of Alawites
In 2020, the UN described “deeply troubling” reports of executions and abuses at the hands of HTS law enforcement authorities. Human Rights Watch documented how HTS, killed 149 Alawites.
Since December 8, 2024, and the fall of Bashar Al-Assad's regime, the issue of national unity has sparked much debate in Syria and abroad. This has been done either to denounce a threat caused by the autonomist tendencies of minorities, or to warn of the peril that weighs on them. The massacres perpetrated in the Alawite region and then in the Druze mountains, and the June 22 attack on a church in Damascus, have fueled the controversy. To unders…
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