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2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites

2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
Part of the Western Syria clashes (December 2024–present) and the March 2025 Western Syria clashes during the Syrian civil war
Protest in Cologne, Germany, against the Alawite massacres in Syria, March 2025.[1]
LocationLatakia, Tartus, Hama and Homs Governorates, Syria
DateMarch 2025–present
TargetAlawite civilians
Attack type
Collective punishment, extrajudicial killings, sectarian violence,[2] massacre
DeathsUntil 23 February:
151 in sectarian killings, 154 in other retaliatory killings (per SOHR)[3]
From 6 March:
  • 1,084 (639+ civilians and disarmed fighters killed by government aligned fighters; 213 security forces and 231 civilians killed by Assadist militias, per SNHR)[4]
  • 2,191 (1,659 civilians, 273 security forces, 259 Alawite militants, per SOHR)[5][6][7]
  • 1,700 civilians (per advisor to the former head of the Alawite Council)[8]
  • 1,700 unspecified (per Hawar News Agency)[9]
  • 2,246 civilians (per Human Rights and Humanitarian Follow-up Committee)[10]
VictimsThousands of Alawites and Christians displaced[11][12]
Perpetrators
  • Syria Syrian Armed Forces[13]
  • Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah[14]
  • Local Sunni Muslim civilians[15][17]
MotiveSyria Syrian Armed Forces and associated parties:

Ba'athist Syria Pro-Assad loyalists[dubious – discuss]:

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A series of mass killings and massacres against Alawites occurred in Syria from 6 March 2025 to 17 March 2025; as part of communal and sectarian violence by fighters aligned with the Syrian transitional government (including locally mobilised civilians, Syrian National Army (SNA) militias and Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah) and armed remnants of the former Assad regime. This violence has primarily occurred in the country's coastal region following large-scale attacks by pro-Assad insurgents on 6 March and is part of the ongoing clashes in Western Syria in the Syrian civil war.

As of 17 March 2025, the UK-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported that 1,084 people, including civilians and fighters, were killed in the clashes since 6 March. According to their documentation, at least 639 people, including civilians and disarmed combatants have been killed by forces aligned with the Syrian transitional government. Armed remnants of the former Assad regime were also responsible for the deaths of at least 231 civilians.[24] The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that 1,614 civilians were killed by armed militias supporting the Syrian government between 6 March 2025 and 12 March 2025.[25]

Especially deadly massacres began in early March 2025 in Latakia Governorate, where, according to the SOHR, Syrian security forces killed hundreds of civilians over the span of two days, including 52 Alawite individuals in the towns of Al-Mukhtariya and Al-Shir in rural Latakia alone. These events took place during a period of heightened tensions and armed clashes between Syrian transitional government forces and militants that are loyal to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as described by Syrian authorities. Despite assurances by new government officials that minorities would be safe in the new Syria, Alawite communities have been subject to a number of massacres since December 2024.

Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa denied responsibility in March 2025 for the attacks. In his speech, al-Sharaa said that "remnants of the former regime" had no choice but to surrender immediately as he vowed to hold accountable "anyone involved in civilian bloodshed".[26] He later vowed to punish anyone involved in the killings, saying that Assad loyalists and associated foreign powers committed the killings as means to destabilize the Syrian state and restart civil war. His office stated that it would create an independent committee to determine culpability for the violence.[23] On 10 March 2025, the Syrian government announced the end of counter-insurgency operations after expelling pro-Assad insurgents from "vital centres" and re-establishing control over most of the roadways in the coastal region.[27][28]

  1. ^ ferhat (15 March 2025). "Köln'de binler seslendi: Suriye'de Alevi katliamını durdurun, acil yardım koridoru açın!-VİDEO" [Thousands shouted in Cologne: Stop the Alawite massacre in Syria, open an emergency aid corridor! - VIDEO]. PİRHA (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  2. ^ Kourdi, Eyad; Lister, Tim; Tawfeeq, Mohammed (7 March 2025). "Hundreds reported killed in Syria clashes in worst violence since ouster of Assad regime". CNN. Archived from the original on 8 March 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  3. ^ "Horrible crime: Two civilians executed and mutilated in Hama countryside". Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 23 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Daily Update: Extrajudicial Killings on the Syrian Coast (March 6–March 17, 2025)". Syrian Network for Human Rights. 17 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  5. ^ "Having been executed in Hama and Latakia SOHR documents 20 new civilian fatalities by names". SOHR. 27 March 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
  6. ^ "More than two thousand civilians and military personnel were victims of the "Sahelian sedition," including 1,557 civilians who were killed and executed" (in Arabic). SOHR. 17 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  7. ^ "Amid ongoing mass*acres and violations | Thousands of missing people and hundreds of unidentified bodies reported in Syrian coastline". SOHR. 22 March 2025.
  8. ^ "mustashar sabiq bialmajlis alealawii: jamaeat aljawlani abadt eawayil bialkamil fi alsaahil alsuwrii" مستشار سابق بالمجلس العلوي: جماعة الجولاني ابادت عوائل بالكامل في الساحل السوري [Former Alawite Council Advisor: Al-Jolani's Group Exterminated Entire Families on the Syrian Coast]. Buratha News Agency (in Arabic). 8 March 2025. Archived from the original on 8 March 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025. [Muhammad Nasser, an advisor to the former president of the Alawite Council, confirmed on Friday that al-Julani's group had annihilated entire families on the Syrian coast. In an interview with the "Geopolitics" program, broadcast on Al-Ahed TV, Nasser said, "More than 1,700 civilians were killed in the Syrian coastal region, including women and children."]
  9. ^ "maqtal miat al'ashkhas baynahum nisa' wa'atfal fi alsaahil waljanub alsuwrii" مقتل مئات الأشخاص بينهم نساء وأطفال في الساحل والجنوب السوري [Hundreds of people, including women and children, killed in the Syrian coast and south]. Hawar News Agency (in Arabic). 8 March 2025. Archived from the original on 8 March 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025. [the death toll has reached more than 1,700, according to local sources]
  10. ^ https://fhmsihr.org/eng/preliminary-report/
  11. ^ "Fear among Syrian Christians after deadly attacks". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 10 March 2025. Archived from the original on 11 March 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2025. There were reports of Christians being caught in the crosshairs... Obituaries have been shared on social media for several members of the small Christian community on the coast. AFP was able to confirm at least seven of these
  12. ^ Azhari, Timour (8 March 2025). "More than 1,000 killed in Syrian crackdown on Alawite region, war monitor says". Reuters. Archived from the original on 9 March 2025. Retrieved 20 March 2025. Six residents of the coastal region said thousands of Alawites and Christians had fled their homes since Thursday, fearing for their lives.
  13. ^ "More than 300 Alawite civilians killed by Syria security forces, allies since Thursday, monitor says". France 24. 8 March 2025. Archived from the original on 10 March 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  14. ^ "majzarat fi 'iihdi quraa hamaat rah dahiataha 10 'ashkhasi.. man takun majmueatan" مجزرة في إحدي قرى حماة راح ضحيتها 10 أشخاص.. من تكون مجموعة [A massacre in one of the villages of Hama in which 10 people were killed.. Who is this group?]. Nabd. 2 February 2025. Archived from the original on 14 March 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  15. ^ a b Sallon, Hélène; Zerrouky, Madjid (9 March 2025). "Syrians describe the violence targeting Alawite minority: 'Tomorrow, there won't be a man left alive in my village'". Le Monde. Archived from the original on 10 March 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  16. ^ a b Christou, William (15 March 2025). "'They killed him in cold blood': the cycle of revenge in north-west Syria". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 15 March 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  17. ^ El Deeb, Sarah; Mroue, Bassem (11 March 2025). "A Syrian man barely escaped a wave of sectarian killings. His brothers did not". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 11 March 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
  18. ^ a b "803 Individuals Extrajudicially Killed Between March 6-10, 2025". Syrian Network for Human Rights. 11 March 2025. Archived from the original on 12 March 2025. Retrieved 12 March 2025. SNHR recorded that at least 172 members of security, police, and military forces (Internal Security Forces and Ministry of Defense personnel) were killed by non-state armed groups linked to the Assad regime.
  19. ^ "Syria can't escape war". UnHerd. 13 March 2025. Archived from the original on 13 March 2025. On 6 March, an Assadist insurgency killed hundreds in Latakia and other coastal cities. ... Some of the victims were burnt alive, while hospitals and ambulances were targeted too.
  20. ^ Yassin-Kassab, Robin (10 March 2025). "Despite coastal massacres, there is still hope for the new Syria". The New Arab.
  21. ^ Ganzeveld, Annika; Reddy, Ria; Campa, Kelly; Moore, Johanna; Moorman, Carolyn; Rezaei, Ben; Braverman, Alexandra; Borens, Avery; Carter, Brian (14 February 2025). "Iran Update, February 14, 2025". Institute for the Study of War. Archived from the original on 8 March 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  22. ^ Christou, William (7 March 2025). "Syrian security forces execute 125 civilians in battle against Assad loyalists". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 10 March 2025. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
  23. ^ a b Sarkar, Alisha Rahaman (10 March 2025). "Syria's new Islamist leader vows action after his soldiers massacre civilians". The Independent. Archived from the original on 13 March 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
  24. ^ "Daily update: extrajudicial killings in the wake of events in the coastal region from March 6 to March 17". Syrian Network for Human Rights. 17 March 2025. Archived from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  25. ^ "almarsad alsuwriu yuathiq 3 majazir jadidatun.. wa'iijmaliu aldahaya yartafie 'iilaa 1383 mdnyaan.. wayuhadhir min makhatir dafn aldahaya jmaeyaan fi alsaahil alsuwrii - almarsad alsuwrii lihuquq al'iinsan" المرصد السوري يوثق 3 مجازر جديدة.. وإجمالي الضحايا يرتفع إلى 1383 مدنياً.. ويحذر من مخاطر دفن الضحايا جماعياً في الساحل السوري [The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documents three new massacres, bringing the death toll to 1,383 civilians. It warns of the dangers of mass burials on the Syrian coast.]. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (in Arabic). 12 March 2025. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
  26. ^ "Syria's leader forms committee to probe deadly clashes, vows accountability". Al Jazeera English. Archived from the original on 14 March 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  27. ^ "Syria announces end of military operation against al-Assad loyalists". Al Jazeera. 10 March 2025.
  28. ^ "Syria announces the end of a military operation against Assad-linked gunmen in a coastal region". ABC. 10 March 2025.
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