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Tensions remain high on the Syrian coast following a series of brutal massacres that claimed the lives more than a thousand civilians from the Alawite minority, with reports suggesting that the forces of the country’s Islmist-led interim government are preparing a second crackdown against the so-called “remnants” of the Assad regime in the strategic region.
The Alawites are Syria’s largest religious minority. The family of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad belongs to the sect.
At least 1,614 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), in the last crackdown which began on March 6 when the Alawites rebelled on the coast following months of violations by government forces.
After facing international pressure, the Syrian government announced that all operations on the coast were over by March 10 and formed an investigation committee. However, the killings continued on a lower scale and no one was held accountable.
On March 23, the SOHR warned in a report that government forces deployed large reinforcements near the town of Arzona, which is located in the southern Tartus countryside, on a key highway leading to Tartus port, then to the cities of Banias, Jableh and Lattakia.
The reinforcements arrived in around 50 vehicles and included what the London-based monitoring group described as “Jihadists”.
Later, they occupied several houses in Azona and established a series of fortified positions up towards the town of al-Sheikh Saad in the northern Tartus countryside.
“The arrival of reinforcements raised residents’ fears of retaliatory security operations in the area,” the monitoring group warned.
On the same day, activists in Tartus reported the arrival of more reinforcements, including main tanks and armored fighting vehicles, in Banias.
Tensions picked up early on March 24, when additional reinforcements entered the area of Draykish in the eastern Tartus countryside, according to the SOHR. Videos posted to social networks showed the troops shooting at civilian houses, throwing hand grenades and chanting sectarian slurs in the heart of the area.
It’s worth noting that the SOHR documented on March 23 the killing of two men, both Alawites, in Homs, as well as the abduction of at least five other people from the minority group, including four women, near checkpoints manned by security forces along the coastal highway.
The recent developments show that the interim government is making no efforts whatsoever to address the concerns of the Alawites or engage with the group in any meaningful way.
The last crackdown displaced at least 16,000 Alawites to northern and eastern Lebanon with more that 8,000 others taking shelter at Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base near the city of Jableh in the countryside of Latakia. A new wave of escalation will likely displace many more and create a serious crisis for the country and its neighbors.
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the druze is a hero, like an israeli soldier, he has a star as his badge, he has a rifle and a tank to carry out the attack as he wishes. a druze sits at the controls of an israeli plane and drops bombs on isis and other terrorists as he pleases and as much as he wants. but alawite is a stupid monkey who believed that hts is not isis and that they won’t slaughter them all when they get them without guns and tanks. if we’re lucky, bibi will appoint a druze as president of syria.
i hope netanyahu does with damascus what roosevelt did with dresden.
ah, it looks like you i df isr aeli has bara tro lls have found your way to this si te and com ment s ect ion
having a little schizoid hissy fit there are we hook nose ?
what did ‘rooseveldt’ do with dresden then smart one ? you inbred trolls are such shit, but facts shouldn’t get in the way of a good carpet shit-splat eh ? , and habitual lying is just second nature.
weak as piss. 🐭
your organ grinder is looking for you 💩
he is a whore licking the boots of his zio masters. like the turds and the quisling whore dictators of the arab regimes.
you see, it is not a healthy idea to have iran and russia as allies. the houthis will be attacked once and for all by saudi arabia, and iran will not help them, even if mabus hangs the houthi boss from a traffic light at a major intersection in riyadh.
brandon and putler have no allies, only fools who end up like the beautiful sami sadat.
shady wahabia tried that for several years. the houthis ate them for breakfast. and then wiped out half their oil industry for a bit of fun.
is it anti-semitism if a druze rides in an israeli plane and throws bombs at hts and other terrorists?
h.t s not terrorist..but freedom fighter mujahedeen…
all who kill civils are terrorists.
h. t. s, israel, usa… all are terrorists.
all of them, along with jolani, erdogan and putler, should be locked up in the guantanamo cage. bomb damascus like churchill bombed dresden and katz gaza.
the time will come when they will be destroyed along with their allies iran, russia, turkey and qatar.
but by whom? that is the question ⁉️
mia, listen to me. i paid a polish bishop 250 euros to harm russia. do you think it will work? the bishop said the impact would be seen over the next seven years.
the crazy freaks who fled to iraq should sign a contract with the uae.
whoever is stupid is stupid. but netanyahu should enlist them in the idf, because he doesn’t have enough men to kill all the terrorists roaming this stupid planet.
all the little druze and druze girl want to be in the katz’s idf. they want to liberate the suburbs of damascus and burn damascus together with the jews.
if ten out of ten of what you wrote is true, i’ll pop open the champagne. netanyahu must cleanse damascus of all terrorists like he cleansed gaza.
make palestine great again. just cleanse the place first with a good dose of zyklon b.
burn hts and the jews, as they deserve to be burned.
it doesn’t matter, hitler was a jew too, but he had no problem burning other jews, and a jew would rather see dead jews than captured jews.
your lying about hitler. but your honest about jews these jewish shotcallers will gladly s acr ifice alot of their lesser non religious 5-30 percent jews to get what they want. infact the rabbis preach how they will gladly erase 85 percent of the jews in a big war in order to get their end times prophecies fufilled. they only want the racially pure ones the cohen class and religious to survive
the one’s with the hook noses are the one’s that count. the rest, useful idiots, a cut above all the talking animals.
for many decades, adolph was just an austrian painter come good in a twisted way. but now, oh no, he was a fucken jew. 🥴 didn’t look like one. certainly didn’t act like one but shapeshifters will be shapeshifters when a load of lying shit suits them, in some way.
if i were bashar i’d hang myself!…
why ??? please explain
this would result in the team that fled to iraq receiving assistance and support from the uae.
the uae would take over saa without assad. israel, however, would not interfere in the affairs of the uae.
the fault here is with syrians they quit and gave away the country iran and russia cant fight everybody elses battles
the arabs are notorious for this they talk about fighting and scream to the sky god allah but always cower to zionists and crusaders
they never ran away or coward they were simply outgunned outclassed and economically exhausted the ceasar act. israel bombed syria for years 14 years on a daily basis. and syria was facing billions of military assets from turkey and nato given to these headchoppers. its no suprise that after such a long time they folded. syrias allies didnt help them enough otherwise the frontline could have been held.
some strategy here ? displace the population make living conditions in hmeimin lonely and increasingly unbearable then attack them a few times till they leave
destroying syrias intellectual class so israel can later much more easy colonize the land for them selves. these jihadis are a israeli land clearence operation just as isis was juus control them and use them to destroy syria and drive away the people erase their culture and history. then the jews move in and steal and annex the land and send in their settlers to occupy it.
these are the thugs the us supports
europe will see more refugees . the world condemned hts terrorist group acts in concert with israel . bankers building thier forever war dream .
syria is no longer a country, it’s a dead land between israel at the south and turkey in the north. syria had a puppet zionist goverment, and after they wipe out all resistance in syria they will put a head of snake western goverment, pro democracy, pro radical liberalism and worshippers of money that will come from israel.
20,000 confirmed killed. 20,000 disappeared.