Fighters affiliated with Syria's new Islamist leaders have carried out 35 summary executions over 72 hours, mostly of Assad-era officers, a war monitor said on Jan. 26.
The war monitor argued that the groups ‘carried out reprisals and settled old scores with members of the Alawite minority to which Bashar al-Assad belongs, taking advantage of the state of chaos, the
As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country’s northwest late last year, officials from several
Hundreds of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham fighters poured into the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on Sunday in an attempt to bring the area under its control, two members of the group said, amid a resurgence of ethnic violence in the country.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said that "these arrests follow grave violations and summary executions that had cost the lives of 35 people over the past 72 hours". It also said that "members of religious minorities" had suffered "humiliations".
According to the Israeli diplomat, Israel will see to it that Syria’s new authorities "don’t let Syria’s territory be used as a springboard for aggression against Israel"
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen urged all parties involved to maintain a credible and effective political transition process in Syria while speaking at a press briefing in Damascus Wednesday.
Sent by Pope Francis, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, on Thursday travelled to Syria, where he will remain until January 29, “to bring the pope’s embrace and blessing to Catholics” and to promote the reconstruction of the country.
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