Rojava Information CenterMar 8, 2025

A surge in conflict on Syria's coast has seen the Syrian Caretaker Government (SCG) security forces unleash a slew of violence against the Alawite minority there.

The last 72 hours:

📌SCG security enter al-Dalia village to arrest an Alawite man; locals refuse to hand him over
📌Tensions arise; the security unit arrest the man but are then ambushed on their way to the Jableh police station

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📌A wave of attacks by pro-Assad fighters against SCG General Security checkpoints in Latakia countryside ensue, with scores killed or taken hostage
📌SCG Security, struggling to pursue the ambushers due to rugged terrain, shells the area from helicopters. This use of heavy weapons inflames tensions and triggers civilian protests
📌Videos of dead SCG Security members spreads on social media; anger is directed at Alawites
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📌SCG launches a massive security operation & sends large reinforcements from Hama, Aleppo, Damascus and Idlib to the coast to crush what they say is an insurgency of Assad-linked fighters
📌This mobilization includes units from the SNA, such as Abu Amsha's Suleiman Shah [video]
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📌SCG forces storm neighborhoods and conduct mass arrests of military-age males, in what some say amounts to collective punishment
📌Rami Abdulrahman (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) said 38 Alawites had been killed execution-style in al-Mukhtareyah town
Mar 8, 2025 at 5:51pmMoshidon
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📌"Gunmen coming from the direction of the Idlib region arrived at dawn and rounded up the men while telling the women to remain at home. The men were then executed."

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/gunmen-kill-dozens-in-syrian-alawite-town-sources-and-war-monitor-say

📌Deliberate humiliation of Alawites & executions at point-blank range are reported

Gunmen kill dozens in Syrian Alawite town, sources and war monitor say

BEIRUT - Gunmen killed at least two dozen male residents of an Alawite town in Syria's rural coastal region on Friday, two Alawite activists and a war monitor said, citing contacts in the region and video footage from the scene. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times
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📌SCG security forces announce the killing of several fighters affiliated to Assad and state that security operations in Jableh will continue to capture the rest; clashes are still ongoing
📌SCG forces use armed drones also
📌A group of Alawite civilians fled to the Russian base (Hmeimim) to plead for protection
📌Alawite activists and community leaders had previously said that their community has been subjected to violence and attacks since Assad fell, particularly in rural Homs and Latakia.
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📌A civilian from Latakia told RIC: "the situation has become volatile; the Damascus forces are firing indiscriminately on civilians and the population is terrified. Anyone over the age of 14 is targeted."
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📌DAANES issued a statement appealing to all parties to halt the escalation, adding "Syria needs a real national dialogue to discuss ways to bring it to safety and resolve all the contradictions and outstanding problems between the Syrian forces."
https://aanesgov.org/?p=18640

#DAANES #Syria #Alawites #HTS

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