Battle in Latakia is marked escalation by Bashar al-Assad loyalists against Syria’s new Islamist-led government
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250307161625/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/07/death-toll-rises-syrian-security-forces-struggle-quell-assad-loyalist-attacks
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It seems there are many videos showing them outright massacring Alawite families, and others showing them selling loot. I haven’t researched further than a few I’ve seen accidentally.
And “Assad loyalists” is factually wrong. Just HTS has not been kind to minorities and most of all Alawites due to Assad being Alawite.
