the XXI, called to be the progress and those things, but in which the world continues to kill the same. The provisional government, of Islamist base, which was made with the reins of the country last December has launched a series of military operations against loyal groups to the overthrown president in the coastal provinces of Syria of Latakia and Tartús, where a good part of the Alauito minority to which Assad belonged. The result, more than 1,300 dead.
This morning, the Ministry of Defense, although local NGOs insist that the area is taken by the Police and the Damascus Army and the tension is maximum. The authorities argue that they have fought against militiamen who resist complying with the state of the sectarianism.
“We announce the success of our forces, thank God and the determination of our men, in achieving all the objectives proposed in this phase,” said the defense spokesman for the new administration of Syria, Colonel Hasán Abdulghani. Leave, then, the door open to new phases, of unknown consequences.
The facts
In the last four days, the Syria coast has become the stage of Matanzas that, say those present, went beyond those militiamen. The death of children, for example, realizes it. In the main historical support bastions to the Assad, bastions of support for Assad, hundreds of people have fled their homes and witnesses tell the news agencies and social networks scenes of looting and mass murders.
In Hai Al Kusour, a predominantly Alauito neighborhood in the coastal city of Banias, residents claim Monday that the streets are still full of scattered, piled up and blood covered corpses. Among those killed, they insist, there are people of all ages.
Damascus says that theirs has not been a planned and revenge operation, but that they attacked in response to an ambush and large -scale attacks of the insurgents against military troops, in the war sometimes open, sometimes underground, that maintain the ancient forces and the new ones in this Syria that still does not see close elections or a constitution or a voice heard of their people.
On Thursday, says the Government, the loyal to Assad who had refused to deliver the weapons in these three months without their leader ambushed the security forces around the coastal cities of Latakia and Jableh, “killing dozens of them.” The attacks have been on a large scale and in them all kinds of heavy weapons have been used.
Shinda Kisho, 13, murdered in Latakia (Syria) on March 9, 2025.
The NGO Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, headquarters in London but with a wide network of collaborators in the field during Dora the Civil War (of more 13 years), affirms that during these confrontations the Syrian forces and other allied groups “executed” and murdered “in cold blood” to more than 970 civilians of the minority Alauit Core is located in Latakia and Tartús. Other 300 members of the security forces and remains of the Assad regime have died in clashes, he adds.
Videos that circulate in social networks, many of them verified by the observatory and groups of activists, show the new Syrian forces and allied armed groups firing at close range against unarmed civilians and running. This NGO and other groups of local activists expect the dead of the dead to increase in the next few hours and days, since many of these killings have taken place in private homes and buildings.
Ahmed al Sharaa, the interim president of Syria, calls for calm: “I want you to be calm for the situation in this country. What is happening in the country are expected challenges. We have to protect national unity and civil peace,” he said in a speech offered in a Damascus mosque reproduced by Syrian media such as Syriatv television, affiliated with the new authorities.
The and represents about 10% of the population of Syria, which is mostly Muslim Sunita. Assad, now refugee in Moscow, belongs to this sect, which thanks to his own mandate and his father’s has been the most benefited in recent decades, with high positions in the state and a remarkable protection.
For more
The second phase, Defense has reported, has already begun: it consists in persecuting the remnants of the old regime that have been hidden in rural and mountainous areas of the coastal provinces of Syria. “We were able to absorb the attacks of the remnants of the extinct regime and their officers, we destroy their surprise element and could keep them away from the vital centers and ensure most of the public roads they had used as a starting point to attack civilians,” said Abdulghani.
There are Western intelligence reports confirming that some security ex officers of the Assad regime are indeed forming a resistance group in the mountains. Although the operation to overthrow the satrap was Rauda, of just 11 days, so overwhelming that it prevented an immediate replica of the now dissidents, over time they have organized critical groups that have a certain armament, for making belonging to the security forces or the army. The problem is that not only fights against those factions, but in these days of fury it has ended with civilians, massively.
of the area that argue that the majority of the Alauita community rejects these armed groups and blame them to maintain a hard line for violence. Among them, GHIATH DALLAH, a former Brigade of the Brigade, who has announced a new rebellion against the current executive, stating that the “Military Council for the release of Syria”, whose size, organization and means little is known but that predicts that the pain of these days will have new chapters if it is about Damasco, it is about to quell the uprising in the same way.
However, criticism also rerecates against the interim president of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, for the brutality of the acts of these days and for having dismantled the security, army and police structures of the country, without a clear strategy to deal with the thousands of officers and personnel who were unemployed. There was no BY plan, still, it was clean of all the troops as a sample of the new era.
Some of these individuals, especially among the police, had nothing to do with the murders during the Assad regime. The new authorities also fired thousands of public employees because he suspected that there was collusion with the overthrots. With 90% of the population of Syria living below the poverty threshold and thousands without income, so any mismatch leaves perfect ground for a rebellion, for discontent.
Among the Syrians No Alauita there is also a visible solidarity with the dead, beyond the religious aspect, because it is evident that innocent has been killed. Therefore, demonstrations have even been convened in Damascus to regret these deaths and condemn violence.
However, if these samples are more fraternal, of people who really want a safe future in common, also in parallel arise to the “jihad” in different parts of Syria. A Syrian independent group has even accused foreign jihadists from the massacres of Alauíes of these days. It is one of the great fears: that integrism wins space now that it is not Assad ,.
Syrian security forces, on March 7, forming to march from Damascus to Latakia.
The consequences
The new Syrian forces are mostly composed of ex -combatants of the now, the group that led the offensive against the Asad and whose roots come from the front of the Nusra, the former at the Qaeda in Syria.
The new Syrian administration tries to distance themselves from that past and its old? Methods and has not explicitly recognized the acts of these days, although he has affirmed that he will take legal measures and will account for everyone who has committed “excesses” or “acts of revenge” against the civilian population during military operations aimed at extinguishing the foci of insurgency of the loyal groups to Al Assad.
In fact, the Syrian Defense Ministry has announced the formation of an “emergency committee” in charge of “following the infractions and sending to the military trial to whom the instructions of the command during the last military and security operation were skipped.”
Several arrests have already been carried out, according to the Syrian newspaper Al Waswhich says that the security forces “arrested several authors of violations”, including those responsible for the “execution of an old man” who were recorded in a video “spinning on a motorcycle for one of the peoples of the coast”, which he did not identify. “All the detainees were taken before justice,” added the media, which pointed out that these arrests took place “in compliance with the instructions of the president” interim of Syria, Ahmed al Sharaa, of “persecuting the authors of violations on the coast.” It remains to be seen if it is true justice or a patch to content western voices that have denounced the massacre and that are essential today for support and help to the new authorities.
The department recalled that by order of the interim president, all the security forces must “strictly adhere to the instructions of the military commanders”, including the prohibition of approaching any civilian house. “Anyone who violates these instructions will be brought to trial without delay,” added the ministry.
Al Sharaa, who led HTS in front of HTS in the offensive against the Assad, already asked their forces yesterday to refrain from revenge acts during the fighting on the Syrian coast, amid the fears for the outbreak of a new sectarian conflict and its repercussions beyond the country’s borders. In fact, the Chií Lebanese group – another of the main allies of Al Assad until its overthrow – has been completely disconnected from the events in Syria. His internal weakness in Lebanon makes him something else, even if he had any revenge interest.
The calls
Meanwhile, countries such as Egypt and Turkey have insisted on the need to initiate a political process in Syria that includes all religious communities and ethnic groups, at a time of maximum tension exacerbated by the wounds still open in the civil war that ravaged the Arab country.
Russia, who sheltered the Syrian dictator, today called “as soon as possible” violence in Syria through the urgent call for consultations in the UN Security Council. “Consider that this matter must be urgently discussed and, more importantly, to do so in such a way that these manifestations of violence are eliminated,” said Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman, at his daily telephone press conference.
“China is concerned about these attacks. We ask all the parties that cease hostilities and protect civilians. Also that inclusiveness is respected and find a reconstruction plan for the country through dialogue,” said the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mao NO, at a press conference.
The European Crisis Management Commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, also requested the “fast” end of the wave, which he considered “deeply alarming”, as well as an “exhaustive” investigation of the massacre that occurred in the country. “After 14 years of conflict, the Syrian people deserve a peaceful and inclusive transition. Syria should not fall into another civil war,” he concluded. And the US also points to the Islamist road, downloading the government. He sentenced the “radical Islamist terrorists” last night to those who attribute the deaths and claimed to the authorities to investigate the “massacres” against these populations.
