Syria’s interim government has sent reinforcements to coastal cities in the country’s northwest where security forces have been engaged in heavy battles with fighters loyal to former ruler Bashar al-Assad.
The violence, which has reportedly killed hundreds of people, including many civilians, presents the most serious challenge yet to new government’s authority since it took power following al-Assad’s removal in December 2024.
Syria’s state news agency SANA quoted an unidentified security official as saying that after the attacks, numerous people went to the coastal areas seeking revenge for the assault on government security forces. The official said the actions “led to some individual violations and we are working on stop them”.
A Twitter user has made a compilation of some execution videos, allegedly by HTS soldiers against Alawite civilians from the past two days:
NSFL (executions): https://x.com/WhatTheHekmat/status/1898178704729063833
Yeah this is a straight up massacre of men women and children by ISIS. Their tactics of rounding up, humiliating and then shooting civilians is the same as when they established their Caliphate in Raqaa.
While I think it’s important that people see what war is, I’m still not sure I want to watch terrible shit like this again right now, but here is a nitter link. https://nitter.net/WhatTheHekmat/with_replies?cursor=DAABCgABGlldE7R__-gKAAIaV6-A-ZaRFggAAwAAAAIAAA