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The forces of Syria’s Islamist-led interim government stormed the town of Sahnaya some 15 kilometers to the southwest of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on April 30 as Israel launched strikes in support of local fighters from the Druze religious minority.
Tensions began a day earlier from the Druze-majority town of Jaramana, close to Sahnaya, which was attacked by Sunni gunmen, some of whom affiliated with the government, over an audio recording of a Druze man cursing the Prophet Mohammad that surfaced online earlier in the week.
Over a dozen were killed in Jaraman before representatives of the government and local Druze leaders reached an agreement.
Despite the agreement in Jaramana, the situation deteriorated in Sahnaya overnight with Sunni gunmen, including members of government forces, attacking the town.
As the attack gained momentum, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that they had instructed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to protect the Druze in Sahnaya, citing the country’s “commitment to the Druze community in Israel and to protecting their brothers in Syria.”
The two leaders also said that Israel conveyed a “serious message” to Syria’s leadership: “Israel expects it to act to prevent harm to the Druze.”
Three Israeli drone strikes targeted government forces outside the town, with the IDF announcing only the first and describing it as a “warning.” Still, it was reported that the strike killed a member of the government’s e General Security Service.
Later following an assessment, IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir instructed the military to target Syrian government sites “if the violence against the Druze does not stop.”
“The IDF is monitoring developments in Syria. The forces are deployed with readiness for defense and various scenarios,” the military said in a statement.
Fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force were spotted over Sahnaya and nearby areas right after the release of the statement. Still, this didn’t stop government forces which stormed the town as the jets carried out at least two strikes, reportedly causing casualties.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency later confirmed that security forces were deployed near Damascus to “restore security,”
Security official Hussam al-Tahan told the news agency that the forces completed a “security operation” in Sahnaya and were deployed there to “restore security and stability.” Videos that surfaced online later showed government troops firing in the air, making religious chants and beating up what appears to be civilian captives.
It’s worth noting that Druze fighters from the governorate of al-Suwayda made an attempt to reach Sahnaya before it fell into the hands of government forces. However, they were ambushed by security forces and affiliated Sunni gunmen.
Videos posted to social networks showed the dead bodies of many of the fighters, who were apparently captured, disarmed then executed.
The exact death toll from the battle in Sahnaya and the ambush on al-Suwayda road remain unknown, but the number is expected to be in the dozens.
This was the latest episode of deadly sectarian violence in Syria where fears have been growing among minorities since Islamist-led rebels, including foreign jihadists, overthrew the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad last December.
In March, more than 1,600 civilians from the Alawite religious minority were killed in a similar government crackdown on the coastal region. At the time, some Alawite leaders also called on Israel to provide them with support. However, their call went unanswered.
All in all, the latest events show how the Syrian government is opening the door for foreign interventions by targeting minorities.
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thanks to putin!!!
heheheh
you can thank usa and europe for starting the war against assad and sudam hussaine, now they bear the fruits of their labor
south sudan ran away, i hope south syria will run away. so that jolani will have to move the capital, in the style of germany in 1945. berlin ceased to be the capital of germany and bonn became the capital of germany. it would be nice if damascus were an israeli city. but it would be even nicer if rami or ribal sat in that palace instead of jolani.
human traffickers truly deserve ghassan alian and the israeli druzes of the israel defense forces to invade syria.
i hope that ghassan alian will send all the uyghurs and all the chechens to their beautiful russia and china, so that they will still be there in all the newspapers as they are on all the websites of india, russia i china.
the activist who spoke out
in a now deleted facebook post, hiba ezzedeen, a syrian activist from idlib, described her encounter with a woman she believes was captured and taken to the governorate as a sex slave during the wave of massacres carried out by government-affiliated factions and security forces against alawites in the country’s coastal areas on march 7.
russia and china are hypocritical about them, i wonder if they will continue to be hypocritical when they have them in their own countries. the chickens are returning home to roost.
evidence continues to emerge that these women, primarily from the alawite religious sect, have been abducted and taken to live as sex slaves in idlib governorate, the traditional hts stronghold, by armed factions affiliated with the new syrian government.
shockingly, the mass kidnapping and enslavement of alawite women now being carried out by hts-affiliated factions mirrors the enslavement of the thousands of yazidi women by isis during the 2014 genocide in sinjar, iraq.
putler is happy because he took a bribe from mabus (mbs+au) and qatari wahhabi mental ill crazzy leader. i wonder how much money the ass received for his evil betrayal of his own nation? did he receive a bribe of fifteen billion qatari riyals in a secret bank account?
“during my last visit to idlib, i was at a place with my brother when i saw a man i knew with a woman i had never met before,” hiba explained. “this man had been married multiple times before and is believed to currently have three wives. what caught my attention was the woman’s appearance – specifically, it was clear she didn’t know how to wear a hijab properly, and her scarf was draped haphazardly.”
global silence as hts & allies take alawite women as sex slaves in syria tyler durden’s photo by tyler durden friday, apr 25, 2025 – 04:10 am via the cradle
since december, when the former al-qaeda affiliate, hayat tahrir al-sham (hts), toppled the government of bashar al-assad, syria has witnessed a chilling wave of mysterious kidnappings of young women, predominantly from the alawite community.
the genocidal psychopath jolani will kill all minorities.
prophet muhammad is a terrorist. so are his followers.
i know this too, but i am not a member of the jewish faith, and i go to christian church every sunday, even though i have not attended confirmation or communion. i don’t know if there’s any greater truth in those books than that fable about the frog and the scorpion. but more than obvious, muhammad was just another pedophile businessman of the kind that still exists today.
because the situation was so strange and alarming to her, she began asking everyone she knew, “rebels, factions, human rights activists,” about the abduction of alawite women from the coast. “unfortunately, many confirmed that this had indeed happened, and not just by one faction. based on what friends said, accusations point to factions of the national army and some foreign fighters, with varying motives,” she reported.
after inquiring further, ezzedeen learned that the woman was from the coastal areas where the march 7 massacres, in which over 1600 alawite civilians were killed, took place. “this man had brought her to the village and married her, with no further details available. no one knew what had happened to her or how she got there, and naturally, the young woman was too afraid to speak,” ezzedeen added.
seria tão bom se esses demônios se matassem até o ultimo. o planeta agradeceria.
demons are attacking minorities and natives, just like the demons that attacked native americans in today’s america.
while the hts-dominated general security units participated in the march 7 massacres in many areas, former sna and foreign fighter factions are believed to have led the campaign. militants went door to door in alawite villages and neighborhoods, executing all military-aged men they could find, looting homes, and at times killing women, children, and the elderly.
syria’s new hts-led security forces have incorporated armed extremist groups, including uyghurs from the turkestan islamic party (tip) and syrian turkmen from factions of the turkish-intelligence-backed syrian national army (sna), into their ranks since coming to power in damascus.
various sna commanders and foreign extremists have been appointed to top positions in the syrian ministry of defense.
it seems al-jolani is going to reward uyghurs, chechens, turkmen & every other single foreign jihadi that helped him defeat assad, & the reward will be not just placing them in strategic government well payed jobs, but also giving them alawite, kurd & druze land once they get “cleansed” erdogan will merrily help. another netanyahu/mossad/cia regime change plot that backfires. when will those idiots learn.
what backfired about their plan ? ?
this resultant smashing and rearranging the status quo here is the plan. they don’t have anything new to learn ; it’s been their method for decades and template of european colonisation for centuries.
if the indians had taken america back then, sailed to europe and burned it, this would not have happened. i hope there’s some alien species that human assholes will bite, but it’ll be too much of a bite to eat. and the aliens will first take back their planet, and then destroy the earth, making it like a martian desert. or at least the israeli army will protect the druze and burn down all the hts headquarters.
in one of the earliest cases, a young druze woman from the damascus suburb of jaramana, karolis nahlah, disappeared on the morning of february 2, 2024, while on her way to university in the mezzeh area. the case was strange because no ransom was demanded, and nothing was heard of her again.
over time, information began to trickle out that young women like karolis were being kidnapped and taken to idlib as slaves, as hiba ezzedeen finally confirmed.
ezzedeen’s courageous revelation shed light on the fate of many young women from minority communities who had mysteriously disappeared in recent months, after self-appointed syrian president ahmad al-sharaa and hts toppled assad and took power in damascus.
a pattern of abductions
if someone did this to our people (i’m croatian), i would wait for his boss erdogan with a hunting rifle and send him to eternal hunting grounds. turkey has kurds and also alawites. are they all women? oops, i’m a woman, but if i were the turkish alawite or kurd, i would deal with erdogan with hunting gun.
above: screenshot of a facebook post inquiring about the whereabouts of the missing karolis nahla. the caption reads: “karolis nahla has been missing since yesterday. she is a second year university student studying french literature. she had class at 9:00 am. at 12:00 pm we lost contact with her. please, if anybody knows anything about her or has seen her, inform us.”
ezzedeen concluded her post by stating, “this is a serious issue that cannot be ignored. the government must immediately reveal the fate of these women and release them.” rather than investigate the issue and seek to rescue the captive women, the hts-appointed governor of idlib issued an order for ezzedeen’s arrest, claiming she had “insulted the hijab.
the greater israel project bears more genocidal fruit
what about the turkish invasions? who was to blame then? nikola zrinski or ivan sirko?
bushra’s disappearance was followed by a wave of kidnappings in the following days and weeks. the kurdish jinha agency reported on 25 march, citing local reports, that more than 100 people were kidnapped by armed groups in syria’s coastal regions over the previous 48 hours, including many women.
on march 21, bushra yassin mufarraj, an alawite mother of two, went missing from the bus station in jableh. her husband later posted a video appeal stating she had been abducted and taken to idlib. “my wife was taken captive in idlib. is there anything more cruel that could happen to a man in the world? that his wife and the mother of his children be in such circumstances,” he stated in a video appeal for help published on social media 10 days later
hi you idiots in syria….miss mr assad yet???😂😂😂😂😂
i miss biden but not blinken. about trump the jury is still out.
he probably doesn’t care because he also received the qatari bribe.
on april 8, 17-year-old sima suleiman hasno went missing at 11:00 am after leaving her school in the village of qardaha in the latakia countryside. sima was released four days later in damascus, where she was handed over to her aunt by members of the hts-led syrian government. surveillance footage from shops near the abduction site circulated widely on social media, sparking widespread outrage
above: a screenshot of a social media post inquiring about the whereabouts of the missing katia jihad qarqat. the caption reads: “a girl has gone missing in the damascus countryside. the young woman, katia, was last seen yesterday friday, at 9:20 am near a shop at the bahra circle in jdeidat artouz. she is from the village of hina and is a third-year university student. anyone who has seen her or has any information is kindly asked to contact the following number 0994479206.”
i’m curious how much bribe the ass received? in the us, this would be called high treason.
on april 11, at 4:00 pm, contact was lost with 22-year-old raneem ghazi zarifa in the hama countryside, in the city of masyaf. “we are extremely worried about her. we ask that anyone with information about her, no matter how small, please contact us immediately,” her family said in a social media post.
on april 5, 21-year-old katia jihad qarqat went missing. the last contact with her was at 9:20 am near a shop at the bahra circle in jdeidat artouz in the damascus countryside. her family pleaded that anyone who had seen or had any information about her should contact them.
this unelected dictator also deserves to will have would been 20% of his territory taken away by a neighboring country.
considering that the turkish alawites did nothing when jolani’s gang of crazed murderers sold little syrian girls, i hope that at least the israeli druze will be smarter and deal decisively with this madman.
i hope ghassan alian takes damascus and jolani will have to make aleppo as his capital. in 1945, greater khazaria divided berlin in half, and bonn became the capital of germany. little khazaria would now have to divide damascus into two parts, and jolani would therefore have aleppo as the syrian capital.
aya’s mother posted a video to social media explaining that her family was not allowed to be with her in detention and that her father was arrested when he insisted on seeing her. the mother said that the general prosecution service tried to force aya to give testimony, saying that she was not kidnapped but had instead run away with a lover. the mother added that she was pressured to tell such a story despite the presence of bleeding cuts and wounds on her body.
on the morning of april 16, aya talal qassem, 23, was kidnapped after leaving her home in the coastal city of tartous. three days later, aya’s kidnapper freed her and sent her to tartous on the homs highway, only for the hts-led general prosecution service to detain her.
big khazar russia took 20% of ukraine from zelensky, little khazar russia should take 20% of syria from jolani.
a video was posted online of the moment of her emotional return home to eagerly awaiting family and relatives. on april 21, 26-year-old nour kamal khodr was abducted with her two daughters, 5-year-old naya maher qaidban and 3-year-old masa maher qaidban.
on april 14, batoul arif hassan, a young married woman with a three-year-old child from safita, disappeared after visiting family in the village of bahouzi. contact was lost with her around 4:00 pm as she was traveling in a public minibus on the homs–safita road. her family asked in a social media post for anyone with information about her whereabouts to contact her brother by phone
this isn’t government forces the country is being run by a crazed terrorist psychopath and his gang. the united nations, bribed by qatar and saudi arabia, fully supports this genocidal maniac.i hope ghassan alian will come to the scene and completely stop this crazy killer and his gang of psychopathic murderous lunatics.
considering that israel is made up of khazar and russian jews, because hitler killed all the european jewsanyway, i hope ghassan alian will do this: zbog anice i bokala vina zapalit cu krajinu do knina
zapalit cu dva, tri srpska staba da ja nisam dolazio djaba
ref. 3x hej, anice kninska kraljice
zbog anice i bokala vina zapalit cu krajinu do knina
ej, hrvati sjetimo se knina hrvatskoga kralja zvonimira
and then annex nicely, just like they annexed knin nicely
echoes of sinjar
by april 17, iraqi media outlet al-daraj reported on ten confirmed kidnappings of alawite women from the coastal regions. according to one survivor, pseudonym rahab, she was abducted in broad daylight and held in a locked room with another woman.
one woman who spoke to al-daraj under the pseudonym rahab was released after the kidnappers allegedly feared a raid by general security. she said she was kidnapped in broad daylight and held in a room with another woman, stating:
nour and her daughters left their home in the village of al-mashrafa in rural homs at noon, heading toward a neighbor’s house. witnesses saw a masked group affiliated with the hts-led general security abduct them, placing them in a vehicle marked with the group’s emblem before fleeing
this is an unelected dictator, a genocidal maniac who rules the country with the help of genocidal gangs. i hope ghassan alian takes over the leadership of the druze and leads them into battle and takes damascus.
they tortured and beat us. we weren’t allowed to speak to each other, but i heard the kidnappers’ accents. one had a foreign accent and the other a local idlib accent. i knew this because they were cursing us because we were alawites.”
the other woman, held with her, pseudonym basma, remains in captivity. she was forced to call her family to tell them she was “fine” and to assure them that “they should not publish anything” about her abduction.
fu..k all religions, from meddle east to rome to moscow to india, buddhism is ok so far!
al-daraj also documented the case of an 18-year-old girl who was also kidnapped in broad daylight, from the countryside of a coastal city in syria. her family later received a text message warning them to remain silent about her abduction or else she would be sent back dead. the girl later sent the family a voice recording from a phone number registered in the ivory coast, saying she was fine and unsure where she had been taken.
a photo of nour kamal khodr’s daughters: naya maher qaidban, 5 years old masa maher qaidban, 3 years old. the iraqi media outlet compared these cases to the isis genocide of yezidis in sinjar. over 6,400 yezidis were enslaved by isis in 2014. thousands were trafficked into syria and turkiye, sold as domestic or sex slaves, or trained for battle. many remain missing.
hts: the ideological continuity of isis
that alawite women are now appearing in idlib is unsurprising given hts’s ideological lineage. hts, which seized idlib in 2015 with cia-supplied tow missiles, shares the same genocidal worldview as isis. it was founded by isis and led by sharaa – then known as abu mohammad al-julani, who was dispatched to syria in 2011 by the late “caliph” abu bakr al-baghdadi to establish the nusra front, forerunner to hts.
in 2014, syria analyst sam heller therefore described nusra’s clerics as promoting “toxic – even genocidal – sectarianism,” towards alawites, based on the teachings of the medieval islamic scholar ibn taymiyyah. though hts and isis clashed in 2014, their ties endured. when baghdadi was killed in 2019, he was hiding in barisha, just outside hts-held sarmada. at the time, numerous enslaved yezidis were also in idlib.
the guardian confirmed this, quoting abdullah shrem, a yezidi rescuer, and alexander hug of the international commission on missing persons (icmp), who said missing persons were often held “in areas beyond government control.”
in 2019, ali hussein, a yezidi from dohuk, told npr journalist jane arraf of his attempt to purchase the freedom of an 11-year-old yezidi girl who had been abducted by isis but was “sold to an emir of an al-qaeda affiliate in syria – jabhat al-nusra [nusra front] – [and] that she’s no longer a virgin.”
“i told you $45,000 from the beginning. i know what they pay in raqqa. i told you, in turkiye, they would pay $60,000 or $70,000 and take out the girl’s organs. but i don’t want to do that,” the isis contact threatened during the negotiation.
reuters reported the rescue of a young yezidi boy, rojin, who had been captured and enslaved by isis along with his brother in 2014. at 13 years old, rojin was taken to the kurdish-run al-hol camp in eastern syria. he was held there alongside thousands of isis families and supporters after the organization’s final defeat in the syrian border town of baghouz in 2019.
some of the women kidnapped from the coast of #syria pic.twitter.com/zkolmyntkw — joshua landis (@joshua_landis) april 21, 2025 the saudi isis fighter who had purchased rojin then arranged for him to be smuggled from al-hol to idlib. he was freed five years later, in november 2024, as hts was preparing its lightning assault on aleppo.
reuters reported that in another case, a 21-year-old yezidi named adnan zandenan received a facebook message from a younger brother he presumed was dead, but who also had been trafficked to idlib.
jews cannot run a single country like normal people. they are genetic defectives. just look at israel and ukraine for proof
“my hands were trembling. i thought one of my friends was messing with me,” zandenan recalled. however, zandenan’s euphoria quickly turned to despair when his brother, now 18 years old and thoroughly brainwashed by extremist salafi ideology, refused to leave idlib and return to the yezidi community in sinjar.
the repackaged caliphate
in december 2024, just one day after julani’s hts entered damascus to topple assad, rudaw reported that a 29-year-old yezidi woman had been rescued from slavery in idlib. the iraqi kurdish outlet stated that many yezidi women have been rescued from the kurdish-run al-hol camp.
however, others “have been found in areas of syria controlled by rebels [hts] or turkish-backed armed groups [sna], and some have been located in third countries,” it added.
in the days following assad’s fall, jubilant crowds took to city squares, chanting in support of julani, now rebranded as ahmad al-sharaa. yet as western diplomats scrambled to meet the new ruler, the meaning of his “freedom” quickly became clear. the abductions of alawite women – mirroring the yezidi tragedy –signaled that julani had simply repackaged the isis model.
under the guise of liberation, a brutal system of sectarian violence, enslavement, and rape was unleashed upon those now under his rule. in response to growing denial, genocide expert matthew barber warned of the same pattern that surrounded the initial days of the yezidi genocide: disbelief, dismissal, and derision – until the truth proved far worse
no one believed it could be happening … even western analysts and journalists did not believe our claims,” barber said. “the reality was even worse than what we were claiming.”
the victims’ silence is not voluntary – it is coerced. and as this campaign of gendered terror continues, the question remains: how long will the world avert its gaze?
reference zerohedge shame on you both putler and the ass.