Report: Massacre of Alawites and Christians by Islamists in Syria

Members of the new security forces and even foreigners’ went to the Alawiti houses and led the summary executions of civilians, especially in the city of Banyas”, he added.

A source of the Ministry of Defense has announced that Syrian security forces launched an operation in the hometown of the deposed president. “Our forces are about to launch targeted and precise operations, in coordination with the general security forces, against the loyalists of the previous regime that have betrayed our forces and our compatriots, in the city of Qardaha,” said the source of the Ministry of Defense.

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The UN correspondent in Syria Geir Pedersen said he was “deeply worried about the news of intense clashes and killings in the coastal area” of Latakia “among the forces of the Syrian temporary authority and elements faithful to the previous regime, with very worrying reports of civil victims ”.

Russia has appealed to the De-Escalation. “We are worried about the significant escalation of the situation in Syria,” said the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. ” We invite all the Syrian leaders to do everything possible to end the massacre as soon as possible, “he continued. ” We confirm Moscow’s position in support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria ”, he added.

According to the Syrian observatory for human rights, at least 124 people who lost their lives in the ongoing clashes since yesterday in Latakia, Roccaforte Alawita in the west. Among the victims also 52 men of the Alawita minority who would have been ” executed ”, as reported by the Observatory.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has made it known that Tehran firmly opposes the “killing and damage of innocent Syrian people”, following the fatal clashes that took place in Syria this week.

Iran “firmly opposes the insecurity, violence, killing and damage of innocent Syrian people of any group and tribes, and believes that this is preparing the ground for the spread of instability in the region,” said the ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaei, in a press release.