Jihadist Massacre in Latakia by Hugh Fitzgerald

Front Page : The jihadists now running things in Damascus have just ripped off their “moderate” masks. Their “security services” have been slaughtering Alawite civilians — men, women, and children in Latakia and Tartous — with estimates of those killed now ranging from 1,000 to 4,000.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the main rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the de facto ruler of Syria, two months ago traded in his military uniform for a conservative Western suit, and assured the West that he had long ago cut his ties to ISIS and al-Qaeda. He also assured the minorities in Syria — the Alawites, Kurds, Druze, and Christians — that they had nothing to worry about. Thousands of murdered Alawite civilians in Latakia have just proved him wrong.

More on what has been happening to the Alawites can be found here: “Tulsi Gabbard’s warning to Senate on Syria proves prophetic as Al Qaeda-linked regime slaughters minorities,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, March 8, 2025:

…An Alawite woman from the region of Al-Ghab plain, where there is a majority Alawite population, told Fox News Digital that the forces said, “Alawites are pigs, and they have to execute all of them and the small children before the elderly people.”

There has been no “genocide in Gaza,” as the maddened antisemites like to claim. But the call by Syrian jihadists to “execute all of them [Alawites] because “Alawites are pigs” sounds to me like a clear call to commit genocide. So far, in two days of slaughter between 1000 and 4000 Alawites, almost all of them civilians, have been killed. Let’s see how many more Alawites — and Christians too, who have been killed in Latakia and Tartous — will be murdered in the next few months as a result of that genocidal impulse.

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