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| Syrian security forces entering the western town of Baniyas in Syria's coastal province of Tartus to reinforce government troops |
Over 1,000 people were killed in two days of fighting in Syria between security forces under to the new Syrian Islamist leaders and fighters from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect on the other hand, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Saturday.
The victims included 745 civilians, 125 members of the Syrian security forces, and 148 fighters loyal to Assad, the UK-based Observatory said. These figures have not been verified by major international news outlets.
Al Jazeera said that, as of Sunday, 231 members of the regime forces had been killed.
The intense fighting broke out late last week as the Alawite militias launched an offensive against the new government's fighters in the coastal region of the country, prompting a massive deployment ordered by new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
"We must preserve national unity and civil peace as much as possible and... we will be able to live together in this country," al-Sharaa said, as quoted in the BBC.
The death toll represents the most severe escalations since Assad was ousted late last year, and is one of the most costly in terms of human lives since the civil war began in 2011.
The counter-offensive launched by al-Sharaa's forces was marked by reported revenge killings and atrocities in the Latakia region, a stronghold of the Alawite minority in the country.
2 comments:
As my father, a"h, used to say: Couldn't they kill each other a little faster?
Not as bad as the Zionists who just attacked Hashem! Hashem hu hasadiq!
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2025/03/israel-assassinates-commander-of-hezbollah-radwan-forces-seaborne-forces.php
On Tuesday, March 4, reports emerged that Israeli aircraft targeted and destroyed a vehicle in south Lebanon, killing its occupants. An unnamed Israeli official told Galei Tzahal, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) radio network, that the target had been a “central figure” in Hezbollah’s elite commando unit, the Radwan Force.
Al Arabiya soon reported, and Hezbollah sources confirmed through issuing a martyrdom notice, that the strike’s target was Khodr Said Hashem, whose nom de guerre was “Sadeq.” The martyrdom notice described Hashem as a “martyr on the road to Jerusalem,” code for having died in battle with Israel, and placed his hometown as the village of Rashkhnaniyeh in Tyre District of the South Governorate of Lebanon.
Shortly afterward, the IDF issued an official statement on Hashem’s assassination and a video of the strike.
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