US EditionIn Syria’s terrorized Alawite region, competing narratives, mutual suspicions
- Starting on March 6, 2025, Syria's Mediterranean coast experienced intense violence primarily targeting the Alawite community, resulting in mass killings and displacement.
- The violence erupted after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime three months prior, with accusations that armed Assad supporters initiated attacks on new security forces, while others claim Sunni security forces targeted Alawites.
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported approximately 1,600 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed, and accused security forces of field executions, forced displacement, and burning homes, as entire families, including women, children, and the elderly, were victims.
- The UN refugee agency reported "21,637 new arrivals from Syria" into northern Lebanon, with fleeing families crossing unofficial border points, including rivers on foot, arriving exhausted and hungry, while some residents say, "We live in terror".
- President Ahmed al-Sharaa's government formed a committee to investigate the killings, but they have yet to release any findings, and while some express hope for a more democratic Syria, others fear the country is sliding into a new phase of civil war with potential sectarian divisions.
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The Globe & Mail
einnews.comThere is hope in post-Assad Syria, but also strife and skepticism of the new rulers
Since the downfall of the Baathist regime, Syrians have been speaking more freely about their future – and their doubts in interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa and sectarian violence against Alawites
Survivors of Alawite Massacres in Syria Share Unimaginable Trauma Experiences - teleSUR English
Alawite survivors of the massacres committed by transitional government forces in Syria have recounted their experiences of psychological trauma, described by psychiatrists as “unimaginable.” In an interview with The Cradle, a resident named Abu Mahmoud from rural Latakia shared harrowing details of how people were shot at and screamed at during the attacks. Mahmoud witnessed the murder of his neighbors, heard the cries of children, and when he …
In Syria’s terrorized Alawite region, competing narratives, mutual suspicions
Syria’s Alawite minority consider March 7 the start of a genocidal campaign. In the eyes of the Sunni majority, it marked operations to quash a coup. Ensuring justice and preventing further killings will be a key test for the new Syria.
In Syria, after euphoria, the time of intimidation and fear
GREAT REPORT - A wind of freedom seemed to blow after the flight of the tyrant Bashar al-Assad and his clan. But, at the beginning of March, terrible abuses and violence against Alawite minorities ended up undermining optimism and awakening the too many ghosts of the past.
Sectarian violence in Syria has reached Damascus. The Alawites, members of former President Bashar al-Assad's minority, are being targeted.
Near midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite families in the capital Damascus and detained more than 20 unarmed men, according to reports from...
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