Syria: Who is to blame?
- At least 147 people have been killed in Syria in two days due to massacres and extrajudicial executions by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 69 victims were from the Alawite minority, including 15 executed in al-Muktariyya on March 7.
- Clashes erupted after remnants of the former Syrian Arab Army attacked Syria's Military Operations Command, leading to increased government mobilization in coastal regions.
- Joshua Landis noted that undirected killings have become widespread in Alawite villages amid the ongoing violence in Syria.
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22 Articles
The Syrian showdown, massacres against the Alawites (protected by Assad). The pros al-Jolani: 'We rebelled against the regime, but the challenge is huge'
When word spread that a new operation to secure the coast would begin soon, hundreds of young people, coming from Sunni villages in the mountains close to the coast, picked up their guns and headed to areas inhabited by Alawites. The result, as reported by the United Nations, was carnage: more than 1,200 killings in a few days. Among those who participated in the expeditions is Himad, now a member of the security forces based in a small village …
Alawite survivors of the massacre in Syria: “I am alive for now, but we have been declared jihad”
“I am well. I live, for the time being, ‘Alhamdulillah’ (thank God in Arabic)”. Ali, a neighbor of Jableh, a city in the Syrian province of Latakia, breaths calmly after having returned to live what he thought he would never again witness: a massacre against his own people, only because of the religion they profess. Ali, father of two children aged 8 and 12, witnessed directly to the carnage that armed men staged last week in the coastal regions…
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