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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."
📌Deliberate humiliation of Alawites & executions at point-blank range are reported
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.
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
📌Number of third-country nationals repatriated dropped 57.2% from 170 in 2023 to 304 in 2024.
📌With the government of Syria being ousted by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, fears arose that ISIS would be able to exploit security gaps.
📌Turkish airstrikes disrupted counter-ISIS efforts.
📌Recorded attacks from ISIS sleeper cells rose 37.5% from 189 in 2023 to 260 in 2024 – which is still lower than 2022’s 285.
📌Number of deaths from these attacks fell 56.7% from 247 in 2023 to 107 in 2024 – a steady decrease since 2022 which was at 362.
📌Numbers of SDF and Asayish raids decreased marginally from 121 in 2023 to 115 in 2024. Arrests of suspected ISIS members rose however, reaching 556 in 2024, compared to 352 in 2023.
[SLEEPER CELL REPORT]
RIC’s annual North and East Syria ISIS sleeper cell report for 2024 breaks down the key events and statistics from the last year.
https://rojavainformationcenter.org/2025/03/annual-sleeper-cell-report-2024/
