Thursday’s reports of fighting between the Syrian government and Alawite militias in Latakia Governorate have exploded into what some are calling an outright insurgency, with hundreds of people killed and reports of the ruling Islamists of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) carrying out mass executions of members of the Alawite minority. 162 Alawite non-combatants were reportedly executed.
Exact figures are difficult to confirm so far, but between Thursday and Friday over 200 people have been killed in the ongoing fighting. This includes combatant death tolls of 50 government fighters and 45 militia members.
The fighting centered on Jableh, in Latakia Governorate, where Alawite militias carried out an organized joint attack on HTS government forces. Large numbers of government reinforcement have been sent to the area, but only some are involved in the fighting in and around Jableh.
Other government forces attacked Alawite villages across the area, including al-Mukhtareyah in Homs Governorate, al-Haffah and al-Shir in Latakia Governorate, and smaller villages in the immediate vicinity of Jableh and Baniyas. Troops from the Defense Ministry and forces from the Interior Ministry reportedly rounded up Alawite men and carried out summary executions. 162 civilians were reported killed in those incidents on Friday. Mostly men were executed, but 13 women and 5 children were also said to have been slain.
The death toll in al-Mukhtareyah alone from executions was at least 30. The government has not directly commented on the killings, but state media quoted an unnamed official attributing them to people “seeking revenge” for the violence against government.
HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani), who is also the de facto ruler of Syria since December, has issued a statement demanding that all Alawites surrender completely and disarm. He further declared that they had made an “unforgiveable mistake” in resisting security forces.
Sharaa went on to vow to continue his effort to totally monopolize weapons ownership in the hands of the central government, declaring that “there will be no more unregulated weapons” in Syria.
The fighting around the Alawites has picked up precipitously since December, when the HTS led forces that ousted the Assad government. Assad was himself an Alawite, and the government has launched multiple violent crackdowns on Alawite parts of the country, presenting it as a move against “remnants” of the Assad forces. Indeed, even the fighting in Jableh was presented as attacks by militias loyal to one of Assad’s old generals.
Alawites only make up about 10% of Syria’s population, mostly concentrated in the northwest. They follow a religious sect that is closely related to Shi’ites, and with Sunni Islamists taking power in Syria in December, a number of them have fled to neighboring Lebanon over the earlier crackdowns.
Sectarian tensions, combined with Assad’s link to the Alawites, have made the minority a target for the HTS, though ordinary Alawites point out they didn’t have any more privileges under Assad’s rule than the rest of Syrians had. There is growing fear among the community that they are to be used as a scapegoat for the crimes of the old government.
The massacres of Alawites have been going on since HTS took over. It's being silenced but it does leak unavoidably. The worst affected area was Homs but Damascus and the Latakia/Tartus coastal districts (which are Alawite-majority) were also seriously affected. It's a genocide.
Check this small "Syria insider" channel, not just this one video (which I picked because it's most relevant to the ongoing Alawite genocide):
The ethnic cleansing of Alawites is the payoff demanded by the Gulf states for supporting the Sunni rebellion since 2011. That was their stated goal all along.
Ahmad al-Sharaa (formerly al-Jolani), the new appointed president of Syria, has been a CIA operative ever since he was imprisoned in Iraq during the insurgency 20 years ago. And he has been the chosen survivor to lead this ethnic cleansing.
There have been many small targeted mysterious air strikes by the US in Idlib over the years to take out specific rebel leaders.
There were four new targeted assassinations just last month. Any leader that knows that al-Jolani is a CIA agent is being targeted.
It is not hard to figure this out. Just ask yourself, why wasn't al-Jolani targeted all of these years? Would the US really invest $ billions to bring to power in Syria someone that they were not sure of?
Ahmad al-Sharaa had been groomed and selected all of these years by the CIA, with all of his competition eliminated with these air strikes in Idlib. Al-Qaeda has been totally co-opted by the CIA for many years. Any local leader of competing groups to HTS in Idlib that might have gotten suspicious to this CIA selection process were themselves eliminated, all in the same manner.
So when Jake Sullivan told Hillary Clinton in an email back in 2013, "al-Qaeda is on our side", this is what he was talking about.
Ahmed Al-Sharaa joined al-Qaeda in Iraq shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fought for three years in the Iraqi insurgency. American forces captured and imprisoned him from 2006 to 2011.
Al-Sharaa created the al-Nusra Front in 2012 with the support of al-Qaeda to fight the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war. He resisted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's attempts to merge al-Nusra Front with the Islamic State, leading to war between the two groups. In 2016, al-Sharaa cut al-Nusra's ties with al-Qaeda.
Since breaking with al-Qaeda, he has sought international legitimacy by focusing on governance in Syria rather than transnational jihadism.
The U.S. Embassy in Syria characterized HTS's formation as an attempt to "hijack the Syrian revolution" rather than a move toward moderation. Despite this stance, under HTS, the group prioritized combating al-Qaeda and ISIS in an effort to improve its standing with Western nations. HTS successfully defeated ISIS, al-Qaeda, and most opposing forces in its territory, establishing control over most of Idlib Governorate, which it administered through the HTS-aligned Syrian Salvation Government.
HTS are Uncle Sammy's terrorists.
Pawns of the Zionists.
Garbage.
Ahmed Al-Sharaa, condemns Israel’s invasion of Syrian territories. “The Israelis have clearly violated disengagement lines, threatening unjustified escalation in the region,” Al-Sharaa stated. He also criticized Israel’s pretexts for the ongoing attacks, saying, “The Israeli excuses have become weak and no longer justify their recent violations.”
https://countercurrents.org/2024/12/syria-condemns-israels-invasion-of-syrian-territories/
Talk is cheap.
Don't know all the ins and outs in the fighting in Syria, but one thing is sure that the US (CIA) and Israel are involved in it. Israel is annexing land and the US still wants the oil adn control part of Syria.
More than 300,000 refugees have returned to Syria since dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, while nearly a million more people displaced inside the country have returned to their homes, the United Nations said on Friday.
Syria’s Alawite stronghold sees days of deadly violence between al-Assad loyalists and security forces. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/7/dozens-reported-killed-as-syrian-forces-and-pro-assad-fighters-clash
Fighting started on Thursday afternoon when militants loyal to the ousted Assad government ambushed Syrian security forces in a coordinated attack in a rural area of Latakia province, a former stronghold of the deposed leader where many of Syria’s minority Alawite Islamic sect live.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights monitor (SNHR) documented “large-scale field executions of men and young adults, without any clear distinction between civilians and combatants”, in north-west Syria.
SNHR has documented the killing of at least 240 people since Thursday, including 100 Syrian security forces and 15 civilians at the hands of Assad loyalists.
Late on Friday, interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa called on armed groups affiliated with the former government to lay down their arms “before it’s too late” and for those loyal to the new government to avoid attacking civilians or abusing prisoners.
“When we compromise our ethics, we reduce ourselves to the same level as our enemy,” he said in a video address. “The remnants of the fallen regime are looking for a provocation that will lead to violations behind which they can seek refuge.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/07/death-toll-rises-syrian-security-forces-struggle-quell-assad-loyalist-attacks
Also:
This is truly heartbreaking. The loss of innocent lives in Syria’s ongoing conflict is devastating, and the reports of mass executions make it even more tragic. No community should have to endure such violence. In times of such hardship, many turn to faith for solace. Surah Yaseen is often recited for protection and peace, offering a reminder of divine mercy and hope even in the darkest times. Praying for peace and safety for all those affected—may justice and humanity prevail.
And more well informed analysis:
A lot of insight into what really is happening in Syria. Al Jolani perhaps is Saudi, not Syrian, a tool of Mossad, perhaps turned CIA when he was imprisoned in Iraq for 5 years when he was part of Al Queda there, and HTS is a tool of Israel to sow chaos in Syria, Turkey has it's interests supporting other groups with drones and air support, and the US, a proxy war between Israel and Turkey. Also, Turkey and HTS seem to have recruited many from Central Asia to do the fighting and security. Most likely Mossad and CIA have done the same, also in Ukraine? Laith Marouf seems to be a serious reporter of Syria
His Abu Ghraib prisoner file claims he’s bedouin from a tribe in the Iraqi-Saudi border, apparently he’s also been denounced as impostor by the real Golani clan he claims to be his ancestors. Much like with Al Baghdadi (who was claimed to be an Israeli agent), nobody really knows who he actually is. It seems that his Standard Arabic is not too good… but I can’t say if that’s because he speaks a Bedouin dialect or whatever other reason.
Israel and Turkey are allies (under US umbrella, of course). Erdogan’s family mafia has been providing Israel with Kurdish (Barzani mafia) and Azeri oil since at least 2012, they have collaborated in regards to ISIS (Daesh) and related Islamo-fascist insurgency in Syria and also in the genocide of Armenians at Artsakh in 2023. HTS is just part of that collaboration and that’s why Julani won’t lift a finger against Israel (but will do totalitarian terrorism against Syrians and aid Israel against Hizbollah and the PFLP).
I don’t always agree with Marouf or any of the other references I’ve provided, they all seem to have an Arab-centric and and anti-Kurdish bias I can’t agree with. However they’re interesting and rather well informed.
Uncle Sammy is responsible for this.