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Latakia's Burning Coast: Sectarian Purge Masked as 'Wildfire' Under Syria's New Government
By Abdullah Suleiman Ali – Jul 12, 2025 As Syria’s new rulers exploit wildfire and war to reshape the coastal region, a campaign of arson and forced displacement threatens to extinguish Alawite presence from their ancestral lands Less than four months into its rule, Syria’s interim government is under mounting pressure, as each crisis—natural or security-related—casts doubt on its ability to govern and maintain control. The recent wildfires that…
Latakia's burning coast: Sectarian purge masked as 'wildfire'...
As Syria's new rulers exploit wildfire and war to reshape the coastal region, a campaign of arson and forced displacement threatens to extinguish Alawite presence from their ancestral lands Less than four months into its rule, Syria's interim government is under mounting pressure, as each crisis — natural or security-related — casts doubt on its ability to govern and maintain control. The recent wildfires that tore through northern Latakia were …


Latakia’s burning coast: Sectarian purge masked as ‘wildfire’ under Syria’s new government
As Syria’s new rulers exploit wildfire and war to reshape the coastal region, a campaign of arson and forced displacement threatens to extinguish Alawite presence from their ancestral lands
The first six months in power of the allied Islamic factions that swept the Assad regime out of Syria were mainly characterized by successive measures aimed at establishing a state monopoly for the benefit of these very factions, as well as by the scenes of incessant sectarian violence, the most notable being the massacres perpetrated by certain factions against defenceless Alawites, without any attempt by the State to protect those who are (...…
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