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The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced on March 10 that its operations against the so-called “remnants of the Assad regime” on the coast had ended, but a war monitor warned that killings were still ongoing with civilians from the Alawite minority beginning the primary target.
In a statement, Hassan Abdul Ghani, a spokesman for the ministry, said that security threats had been neutralized in Latakia and Tartus.
“Having achieved [the neutralization of the security threats] we announce the end of the military operation,” Ghani said. “We were able … to absorb the attacks of the remnants of the toppled regime and its officers” and push them from “vital” locations.
The government’s crackdown on the coast began earlier this week when a rebellion mainly led by Alawites broke following months of violations. The Alawites are Syria’s largest minority group. The family of former president Bashar al-Assad belongs to the sect.
Following the ministry announcement, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) warned that killings were still ongoing with the death toll exceeding 1,500.
At least 1,068 of the casualties, the London-based war monitor reported, were civilians, mostly Alawites, killed by government forces and affiliate militias.
Syria’s interim President Ahmed Sharaa said on March 10 that the mass killings of Alawites were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those responsible, including his own allies if necessary.
In his first interview to a global news agency, Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had followed.
Footage posted to social networks showed some of the murderers committed after the Ministry of Defense announced that operations were over on the coast. It also revealed what appears to be attempts by government forces to hide evidence, by setting fire to buildings in targeted areas and even collecting then dumping the bodies of victims in remote areas.
SOHR confirmed that the government was working to hide what happened, in some cases even placing weapons and military gear next to civilian bodies.
Later today, closed-door consultations will be held at the United Nations Security Council to address the recent developments on the Syrian coast upon the request of both Russia and the United States. The move will likely put some serious pressure on Sharaa.
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the greater israel project creates more genocide . israel building the supply road through syria to iran . the innocent have no hope .
i hope that really big israeli bombs fall on such governments and then israel annexes everything
shlomo and his stooges are crowing over the destruction of syria, but ultimately there will be no winners. even shlomo and erdogan will soon come to regret their involvement. they have divided the carcase of syria between them, and now they have the headache and the cost of ruling over a vast, lawless ungoverned space, iraq 2.0. ironically, the only ones who may come out ahead are russia/ iran/ hezbollah. syria was a great drain on them ….
financially, economically and militarily, and they have now been relieved of this burden. syria is now a free for all with multiple actors in bed with one another one day and at each other’s throats the next. the obvious likely outcomes are a clash between israel and turkey, a war of all against all internally, and a protracted insurgency against zionist occupation. probably all of the above. break out the popcorn.
israel is a nuclear power , the war will be finish in 1 hour
egypt’s national hero el sisi had to sign an agreement with israel to save his people from erdogan’s monstrous beast morsi. this was mandatory because morsi was waging a religious war against his own people.
morsi was freely elected in a democratic election endorsed as such by international observers.
al sisi ‘national hero’? are you kidding?
russia is a nuclear power. the war in ukraine has lasted a little bit longer than one hour. using nuclear weapons is a quick way to commit suicide.
in your masturbating dreams hook nose.
rather afghanistan/talibanistan 2.0. a jungle.
if ribal al-assad or his cousin maher al-assad was willing to sign a treaty with israel, he could save this nation in two days. and jolani would be placed in a cage in guantanamo like other isis and al qaeda. israel saved egypt from erdogan’s evildoers. i’m not even sure if bashar al-assad is still alive. personally, i don’t think he’s alive anymore. kazan 2024 should never have happened.
in 2000 assad senior travelled to swirzerland to complete a peace treaty with the zionist regime. he only had 3 months to live, and wanted to settle this before he died. when he got there, the zio regime refused to withdraw from occupied syrian territory as they had previously agreed to do. assad realised he was being jerked around and just went home. trying to negotiate with the zio regime is utterly pointless.
jewlani is lying, he and his monstrous thugs will pay the price for the river of innocent blood they’ve spilled!
and who’s going to do it ? the only credible opponent would be the irgc and hezbollah. crickets 🦗 so far
hezbollah and irgc will soon arm alawi and will create state in the coast it just matter of time bcuz turkey is hand in hand with this massacre . and iran will make turkey pay for thsi.
the massacre of alawites by al julani’s hts-qaeda army has striken so much fear into the sdf-pkk-ypg seccesionist, kurdish swine; that they’ve decided to hand over their weapons & join the damascus islamist regime. syria will remain as one. israeli settlements & israel’s illegal occupation of the golan heights, west bank & gaza is null & void & without international legal effect as per unsc resolutions 497 & 2334. israel lost.
syria will break up into a thousand pieces. since when did international law apply to the chosen folk?
partly true. but nobody that can break up syria now. trump isn’t interested in doing it & the pathetic, tiny, welfare funded, banana republic of israel & its paper tiger idf can’t do it. specially not after the oct.7 fiasco. despite over 1 & half years of daily ground incursions & round the clock aerial bombing that rivals the bombing of germany, the idf couldn’t dislodge a few 1000 barefoot, goatherding, towelhead, hamas tunnel rats
syria is already broken into 4 parts. that is only the beginning.
at least 20,000-50,000 dead.
if 2 million alevis live in syria and an unending extermination has begun, then with the brutality that can be seen, it is not just the number of two small villages (+1000) that have been wiped out.
i thought there already well over 10,000 dead and that putin and erdogan were to blame for all this evil. if putin and erdogan really agreed on this vile thing in kazan then by 2030 the brics must completely confront each other.
i’ve got a feeling that the chinese may at this stage be in a somewhat sanguine mood over putin and his jews. even a week can be a long time in politics, especially international politics.
“1,500”? https://t.me/oleg_blokhin/64443
russia will obey their israeli masters
at least in chechnya, let the same people throw them the same vile party.
this is a religious war because in the name of god, a larger group wants to kill a smaller one. it was not enough for the criminal erdogan, that he destroyed libya and egypt, but also syria. if god existed, when he and putin were talking in kazan 2024, a ukrainian drone would have flown in and turned both putin and erdogan into minced meat. religious wars have existed since humans invented god.
the whole families in theri livingrooms killed to chairs. what kind of bastards do this kind of things. this is ethnic cleansing
‘syrian ministry of defence.’ the syrian ministry of defence collapsed some time ago. it really puts any reader, with half a brain in their heads, off. any article on this syrian tragedy by any media outlet look like scripted rote. nil independence and amoral “integrity”. press.tv should have more realistic language dealing with these insane murderous assholes.
what did the traitors putin and assad think would happen other than genocide?
when eu wants to justify suppression and killing their call syrians on coastal side assad supporters to divert support against civilian killing.
nato is showering in ukrainians blood by instigating.forget about their global european friends killing of innocent syrian who wants justice and equal rights.erdogan likes violent regimes of terrorist.
there was a time when arab nationalism had a vision now all the arabs and muslims do is kill each other for the entertainment of zionists and colonizers
died with nasser
israel with its land small of 24.000 km2 and 8 million people cannot touch or scratch iran with its 91 million people and area of 1648195 km2. first iran has 11x times more people than shity israhell and as i said the area of iran is 68.6x times larger than one of israhell, almost 69 israhells in land and 11x times in people. a small jewish fake state can only dream about war against iran.
no, they’ll just get their bought and paid for whores in the jewsa to do it. nuttyyahoo will tell his flunkey chumpo to do it for him. he’s a good little shabbos goy and has to earn his $250 million of adelson and aipac money.
this crminal act will not be forgotten now this terrorist scum has created more hatred and ahmed sharraa and his stooge will pay the eavy price soon. shia will not forget this killing and will makw sure this muawiya genartion will be send to hell
i’ve stopped when the boy with white shirt was killed by some s.o.b. jahdist. they are murders and criminals, but strangely enough europe doesn’t never care about anything else to buy weapons to destroy russia.
madness, bloody madness.
someone said that those criminals are not tameable in a civil manner. and i’ts true.