Posted on 03/08/2025 5:30:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers and fighters from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect in the country's coastal region, a war monitor said on Saturday.
The casualties included 745 civilians, 125 members of the Syrian security forces and 148 fighters loyal to Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the observatory, said the widespread killings in Jableh, Baniyas and surrounding areas in Syria's Alawite heartland amounted to the worst violence for years in a 13-year-old civil conflict. The victims included women and children from the Alawite minority, he said.
The new ruling authority on Thursday began a crackdown on what it said was a nascent insurgency after deadly ambushes by militants linked to former president Assad's government.
Several dozen members of the security forces have been killed in heavy clashes with militants, a Syrian security official said.
Officials have acknowledged violations during the operation, which they have blamed on unorganized masses of civilians and fighters who sought to support official security forces or commit crimes amid the chaos of the fighting.
A defence ministry source on Saturday told state media that all roads leading to the coast had been blocked to stop violations and help return calm, with security forces deploying in streets of coastal cities.
The source added that an emergency committee set up to monitor violations would refer anyone found not to have obeyed the orders of the military command to a military court.
The reported scale of the violence, which includes reports of an execution-style killing of dozens of Alawite men in one village, puts into question the Islamist ruling authority's ability to govern in an inclusive manner,
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How many Christians?
745 civilians. This is the new regime that Democrats wanted, which included a few RINO Republicans. These are the “good guys”, according to McCain.
“ The casualties included 745 civilians”
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Sounds like the beginning of genocide of the Non-Sunni-Muslim Syrian minorities.
So unexpected…/sarc
https://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-minorities-including-christians-killed-syria-reports-2041764
...Greco-Levantines World Wide, a nonprofit, wrote in an X, formerly Twitter, post on Friday: “Tony Petrus and his son Fadi Petrus, two Antiochian Greeks, were killed today in the pogrom launched by HTS against the mixed Christian and Alawite region.”
In a Saturday post, it noted: “The father of Fr. Gregorios Bishara, priest of the Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation, was martyred this morning at the hands of the pro-HTS armed factions that raided the city of Baniyas.”...
What’s wrong with that part of the world?
It’s not just “clashes”. The head choppers have been going door to door murdering minority (Alawite, Christian, etc.) men, women and children as well — and videoing it.
Worth reading to the end:
Hang out with the Druze neat Golan Heights-safer.
Alawites/Christians should leave the coast to hang out with the Druze near the Golan Heights. Then ask Israel to protect them.
I’ve read on X that many Christians have been slaughtered. Don’t have a number!
Not long ago, from Israel-
Fox News: The death toll in the new civil war in Syria in the last two days is 4,000, and counting.
Most of them will be Christians, and with a Sunni Extremist gang taking over Syria, all the Christians will be slaughtered or have to leave.
Just like so many other countries in the Middle East.
But hey ! We are “blessing Israel” so I guess it is all right.
I’m not sure what this is leading to but President Trump has some military cards on the table in eastern Syria and Israel is very angry with the new Syrian gov’t and its Turkish sponsors.
Israel can bomb the new Syrian government until they're forced to stop the slaughter of non-Sunni Muslim minorities.
A couple of years ago the Christian population in Syria was put at 2.5%. I don’t know what it is now but probably many will try to leave if they are facing mass slaughter if they stay.
Actually that is not the case in the coastal area of Syria where the Alawites have historically been. There were Christians but they were certainly not a large segment of the population.
What do you know about Syria? I spent 7 years following earlier struggles, and 3 on other matters after that. Had great friends in NE Syria and in several places in the ME.
It is not about Shia and Sunni. It is about being Islamist or not. Turkey is who is driving this takeover of Syria. Erdogan has drooled about it for 30 years. He is the only head of a nation that protected and employed the last of the ISIS that were not in captivity in Eastern Syria.
I am no longer on X, was on Twitter and X for 15 years.
I know what I am taking about.
Christians should all immediately move to the new Druze state that Israel is carving out of Southern Syria. Flood it, expand it, and hopefully Trump will recognize it as a independent state
Yes. Exactly.
What this world needs is more small enclaves of like minded people, all working toward the goal of racial or religious purity. Until we’re all our own nation, because frankly, everyone else sucks. Hell , even I suck, but everyone else sucks more.
So come at Fuzzlandia. I’m stockpiling dog poop and grain alcohol. Get off my lawn or there will be hell to pay. /grumbling
Great work CIA and State and Israel! You finally got rid of Assad and the Syrian rebels won!
A-holes.
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