West-Backed Jihadists in Syria Massacre Over 1000 Alawite & Christian Men, Women & Children
After several days of radical Sunni Islamist militants targeting religious minorities in Syria for mass killings, mainly in coastal areas, the mainstream media has belatedly begun to cover it (as the killings are growing to the point of getting too hard to ignore). Some correspondents estimated that there are thousands dead and wounded, mostly Alawites but also Syrian Christians among them, as post-Assad Syria unravels under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's (HTS) Jolani.
'The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria's conflict began 14 years ago,' The Associated Press reports.
The jihadists, which include foreign fighters as well as ruling HTS members, in some cases are simply going into the homes of non-Sunnis and massacring whole families. The terrorists haven't been shy about uploading their killings on the internet as well as in livestreams. Men, women, children, and even babies are being brutally murdered.
More on the jihadist terrorist regime's massacres of Alawite families"The attack was swift and merciless. The militants stormed the apartment, slaughtering the family without hesitation"👇 https://t.co/yT9NDDBotD — OstensibleOyster (@Ostensiblay) March 8, 2025
'The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in addition to 745 civilians killed, mostly in shootings from close distance, 125 government security force members and 148 militants with armed groups affiliated with Assad were killed. It added that electricity and drinking water were cut off in large areas around the city of Latakia,' AP continues.
But instead of calling out the obvious ethno-religious genocide unfolding, the European Union had the audacity to issue this statement:
The European Union strongly condemns the recent attacks, reportedly by pro-Assad elements, on interim government forces in the coastal areas of Syria and all violence against civilians.
This is incredibly shameful. https://t.co/n6maaBgtIA — Sam Noble (@TricycleRepair) March 9, 2025
But the truth has been summarized by a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is the predominant Christian faith of Syria and the Middle East. 'As you see the unfolding tragedy in Syria, keep in mind, this is your tax dollars at work. This was brought to you by the US government, the State of Israel, and Turkey. They said Assad was bad. This is what they replaced Assad with,' Priest John Whiteford said on X.
Syria has once again become a warzone as HTS insurgents open fire on Alawite homes in Homs. They're murdering people based on their race. pic.twitter.com/J6YUsrXma3 — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 6, 2025
Gruesome images of bodies piled up on streets in and around Latakia have been widely circulating – many of them too disturbing to republish.
Fox has underscored that Tulsi Gabbard was right once again…
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's warning of a terrorist takeover in Syria looks to be coming true amid reports that al Qaeda-linked terror forces aligned with Syria's interim new president—a former al Qaeda terrorist—are being accused of massacring Alawites as well as members of the country's dwindling Christian community.
…At Gabbard's Senate confirmation hearing she said 'I have no love for Assad or any dictator. I just hate al-Qaeda. I hate that our leaders cozy up to Islamist extremists, calling them 'rebels', as Jake Sullivan said to Hillary Clinton, 'al Qaeda is on our side in Syria.' Syria is now controlled by al-Qaeda offshoot HTS, led by an Islamist Jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many American soldiers.'
🚨🇸🇾 📍 Jableh: Terrorists in the jihadist regime shoot & throw grenades at restaurant & Alawite homesReports indicate they murdered the restaurant owner & his entire familypic.twitter.com/TiOdP0nvE1 https://t.co/5bDsqWwJ8i — OstensibleOyster (@Ostensiblay) March 8, 2025
So far Damascus has remained relatively quiet, but in areas where there are no media cameras, particularly countryside areas of Syria – the jihadists are going on a murderous rampage. Sadly it looks to get worse.
When the Syrian 'revolution' began 14 years ago the jihadists were chanting to slaughter Alawites and other minorities and later attacked Christian/Druze towns like Maaloula and Adra killing many. They were always bloodthirsty orcs and now they rule Syria. What did you expect? pic.twitter.com/7XbiykNoDf — Hadi (@HadiNasrallah) March 8, 2025
Entire Alawite families have been massacred, such as the below…
Meanwhile Syrian Christians fear they are next to be targeted on a large-scale. Their warnings have largely fallen on deaf ears in the West…
This book is the result of years of Syrian Christians warning what's coming. We collected the interviews from 2015-2020. Last words to me of a priest in Damascus while we sat on Straight Street: "We are a church of martyrs & we will stay." #Syria is home. https://t.co/JsjacQwNJO — Brad Hoff (@BradRHoff) March 9, 2025
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