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Russia Opens Air Base For Refugees As Toll From Syrian Coast Rebellion Exceeds 230 (Photos, Video)

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Russia Opens Air Base For Refugees As Toll From Syrian Coast Rebellion Exceeds 230 (Photos, Video)

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The Russian military on March 7 opened Khmeimim Air Base on the Syrian coast for hundreds of Alawite refugees as the death toll from the rebellion against the new Islamist government in the country exceeded 230.

The rebellion broke out a day earlier following a deadly security operation in the town of Beit Aana in the countryside of Latakia, with Alawite officers from the former Syrian Arab Army leading attacks on government forces. The Alawites, an offshoot of Islam Shiite, are Syria’s largest minority group. The family of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad belongs to the sect.

After initial success in Latakia, Qardaha, Jableh, Banias and Tartus, the rebels were overpowered by government forces which brought in large reinforcements and used heavy weapons overnight.

As the rebels retreated, reports of massacres by government forces targeting Alawite civilians across the coast began to surface.

Hundreds of Alawite civilians who had gathered to demand international protection outside Khmeimim Air Base near Jableh were trapped as government forces approached. To avoid another massacre, the Russian military allowed them to take refuge within the perimeter of the air base and provided them with humanitarian aid.

Photos posted to social networks showed women, children and elderly sleeping inside one of the base’s administrative buildings.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a total of 238 people had been killed on the coast by March 8 morning, including at least 162 Alawites civilians who were executed by government forces. The real numbers may be higher.

The largest massacre was in the city of Banias in Tartus where at least 60 people, including ten women and five children, were killed by government fighters and supporters. Two other massacres in the towns of Mukhtareyah and Qurfays in Latakia, left 24 and 22 people dead respectively.

In addition, activists said that government forces shot and killed prominent Alawite scholar Shabaan Mansour and his son in the town of Salhab in Hama. It’s worth noting that there were no movements against government forces in that area.

Despite the large number of civilian casualties, Syria’s transitional president Ahmad al-Sharaa – who led the offensive that overthrew the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad last December – doubled down on what he described as operations against “regime remnants” on the coast.

In a recorded televised address on the situation, Sharaa hailed government forces for swiftly containing the uprising on the coast.

“Some remnants of the fallen regime sought to test the new Syria they do not understand,” Sharaa said. “But Syria today is united — from east to west, north to south.”

He reiterated that the state and the people are one, and vowed to pursue those responsible for attacking security forces and civilians.

“Those who insist on violence will be held accountable in a fair court,” he declared, calling on former regime remnants to surrender their weapons immediately.

Meanwhile, a group of Alawite clerics, the Alawite Islamic Council, blamed the violence on the government, saying fighters had been sent to the coast “with the pretext of [combating] ‘regime remnants’, to terrorize and kill Syrians.” It called for the region to be put under United Nations protection.

The situation on the Syrian coast brought in very little attention from the international community and the mainstream media.

Russia, which maintains a military presence on the Syrian coast, said that it was alarmed by a deterioration in the security situation and called on all “respected” leaders of the country to stop the bloodshed.

The only other country that talked about the crackdown by Syrian government forces on the coast was Israel, with the Defense Minister slamming the government of Sharaa for the killing of Alawite civilians.

“[Abu Mohammed] al-Julani switched his robe for a suit and presented a moderate face,” Israel Katz said in a statement, using the nom de guerre of interim Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa. “Now he’s taken off the mask and exposed his true face: A jihadist terrorist of the al-Qaeda school who is committing horrifying acts against a civilian population.”

“Israel will defend itself against any threat from Syria,” Katz added, while vowing the military would continue to occupy a buffer zone along the border and keep working to keep southern Syria demilitarized.

While Sharaa has pledged to run Syria in an inclusive way, Alawites were completely excluded from government forces and senior government positions. Thousands of civil servants were also released from their jobs, worsening the economic situation on the coast.

The Syrian government’s failure to address the concerns of the Alawites or to integrate them into its ranks could open the door for foreign powers into the coast. Calls are already being made for Israel to intervene to protect the minority.

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The wandering inbred

drugged up ratbag salafist and foreign half-wit criminals and they’re ‘the government’. for now. well, the ilyushin transports should, i repeat should, be turning up for evacuations. these people are dead otherwise. at least none of these will be hanging from the wheel wells, and falling like the gutless yankee doodle dandy effort in kabul.

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Super Mia

syria gets new cash shipment from russia in sign of warming ties the assad regime began paying russia to print its currency under a multi-million dollar contract agreed during the country’s 13-year civil war. mena 3 min read the new arab staff & agencies 06 march, 2025 last update

Jam L

i hope that iran gets stronger as it can’t rely on russia and putin. putin, the ally of sunnis, will sell everything for the ukraine.

Dragon of Bosnia

these are not any ‘sunny’, but zio wahhabi. not even remotely muslims let alone. israel katz trys to be smart and throw dust into eyes, while knows very well that these beasts satans the snake is theirs creation, that they do anything thirs masters, jooz are asking from them. including these massacres, and canibalism.

Super Mia

syria began paying russia to print its currency under a multi-million dollar contract during the 13-year-old syrian civil war, after damascus’ previous contract with a subsidiary of the austrian central bank was terminated due to european sanctions.

it is unclear if the arrangement is now continuing under the same terms. one source familiar with the contract said it was.

Super Mia

06 march, 2025 15:58 pm syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in russia on wednesday with more consignments expected in the future, a syrian government official said, in a new sign of improving ties between moscow and syria’s new rulers. the cash arrived via plane at damascus airport on wednesday and was taken by a convoy of several trucks to the central bank, according to a separate source familiar with the matter.

Cromwell

what gets me is this situation could have been avoided, russia got many things right but they made several catastrophic mistakes, one trusting the turks, allowing thousands of terrorists to leave aleppo to settle and fester in idlib, then for some reason once the terrorists drove down the main highway from idlib to damascus the large terror convoy could and should have been obliterated from the air.

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Fgtgnn

the green buses should have been a one way ticket to cemetery.

Super Mia

a senior russian diplomat visited damascus in january and syrian president ahmed sharaa held a phone call with russian president vladimir putin on 12 february.

two days later, syria received its first shipment of local currency from russia.

the cash shipments are critical: syria’s war-ravaged economy has slid further in the past months amid a shortage of currency that syrian officials have attributed in part to delays in the russian cash shipments, as well as to hoarding of syrian pounds.

kotromanic

they should have taken down assad years ago and formed a alevi and christian coastal country perhaps with the christians of lebanon under russian proterction and let the rest fight each other if thats what they want you cant force them not to just try to stay out of it.

anon

that is the age old colonial project for the region.

Super Mia

left syrian depositors struggling to use their savings and has piled pressure on local businesses who are already being squeezed by new competition from cheap imports as the protectionist economy is opened up by the new rulers. adding to the economic malaise, a planned 400% public-sector salary increase has not materialized, neither has the qatari finance underpinning that increase, sources told reuters, due to ambiguity over us sanctions and us president donald trump’s syria policy.

Super Mia

a senior former syrian official said russian cash shipments in the hundreds of billions of syrian pounds (tens of millions of us dollars) used to arrive in damascus each month. reuters could not determine exactly how much had arrived on wednesday, the second such shipment since assad was ousted on 8 december.

the cash crunch has

The wandering inbred

nailed it. a big effort to accommodate the turks, their black sea neighbour.

Super Mia

economists and analysts say syria’s cash shortage is largely behind the currency’s strengthening on the black market in the months since assad fell, while it has also been helped by an influx of visitors from abroad and an end to strict controls on trade in foreign currencies.

the pound on thursday was trading at around 10,000 per greenback on the black market, compared to the official central bank rate of 13,000.

it traded at around 15,000 per us dollar before assad was toppled.

the narrative

they were not prepared for two wars at the same time .

Super Mia

i hope that the same people will liberate chechnya and declare it a sovereign state with the help of european money.

Super Mia

russia backed syrian autocrat bashar al-assad during the war, swaying the conflict with its bombardment of rebels including the islamist group hayat tahrir al-sham that ousted assad in a lightning offensive last year.

but russia quickly moved to maintain its ties with damascus in the weeks after assad fled to moscow, with an eye on keeping its two key bases in the country’s coastal region.

a senior russian

Benedetto

uscire dalla siria, vorrei sapere se qualche caccia mirage di napoleone è stato abbattuto, grazie.

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Itsthejews

atleast a few are temporarily saved from the jewish backed salafi headchoppers. its time everyone wakes up and calls out these su bver sive jews who are behind hts and isis( israelisecretintelligence service) simon elliot who was bagdadi was a jew. they use these kind of straw men to scam us into fighting eachoter. its time to wake up unite and fight our real common enemt for once. the zionist regime.

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Itsthejews

yes the leader in ankara and in baku they are also in on it. they serve israel. and if they claim they suppprt palestine they are lying. they did everything to further israel in its goals to destroy syria and the syrian people. and destroy the palestinian cauae also as they directly did supply israel is massive amounts of oil and did everything to weaken the resistence against israeli expansionism in syria

Conan M

so this is russia’s role after losing thousands of russian service members over a decade protecting what was left of damascus and aleppo?… whatever is left of them i$rahell and the rest of the anglo-zi0ni$t state will allow the few remaining to start a new life in jedda or riyadh?… in today’s news that only gets worse the zi0ni$t nate musing – “uk lifts sanctions on jolani regime as his army barrel-bombs civilians”…

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kotromanic

well you should just read it it allways says supporters of the former assad regime. and thats enough for western minds to feel that whats happening is good. same would happen if ukraine would conquer eastern ukraine and crimea and just murder everyone there.

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Conan M

all here in this sentence “the purpose was to ethnic cleans slavs and russians of any kind. the western biolabs were to holocaust slavs. then the ashkenazis in israel, and western ukraine can have their old khazarian homeland back”… let me know when poutine is flown to a permanent location in tel aviv where he will spend the rest of his days, or is disappeared.

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Conan M

my epiphany with the kremlin midget started in earnest when he plugged the sputnik vaccine along with 0range $tain and the rest of the nwo cabal under the “world health organization” circus tent!…

Last edited 1 month ago by Conan M
Moscow Will Burn

assad should’ve picked a better ally…russia will be ass-kicked out of syria just like assad was…heheheh…

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Conan M

the reason bi bi is so fat. more of everything! disgruntled khazar in zelensky bunker angry at the eastern prize with rare earth(s) remaining in russia!…

Last edited 1 month ago by Conan M
kotromanic

good luck finding an ally when the country that wants you gone is isreal who everyone on this world cherishes.

Conan M

i’ll say it again. when deli belly bi bi gets his ultimate wish and gaza is cleansed of it’s indigenous population… what do you think is going to happen to the “new owners” in the neighborhood?… better set your stop watch for building that trump ca$in0 “in them parts”!

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none

the russian military should be prepared to fight, any ‘agreements’ with the syrian rebels would likely not be honored. they could strike the russian base.

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The wandering inbred

i hope they do, which would put the clever dialogue collaborators in moscow in a very difficult situation.

the narrative

at least someone cares for the innocent

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the narrative

syrias de-facto dictator government is a zio created farce

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