{"id":289910,"date":"2025-03-17T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289910"},"modified":"2025-03-17T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:06:50","slug":"syrias-sectarian-massacres-are-blowback-for-foreign-led-dirty-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/syrias-sectarian-massacres-are-blowback-for-foreign-led-dirty-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s Sectarian Massacres Are Blowback for Foreign-led Dirty War"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 Mar 2025 –\u00a0By arming the sectarian insurgency that now rules Syria, the US and its allies bear responsibility for the current slaughter of Alawite civilians and other minority groups. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Since Friday [7 Mar], fighters loyal to Syria\u2019s new Al Qaeda offshoot government have massacred hundreds of people in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus, the heartland of Syria\u2019s Alawite population. Contacts in Syria have shared stories, corroborated by gruesome videos circulating on social media, of outright pogroms: entire families murdered in their homes; residents rounded up and executed in the streets; shops looted and burned to the ground; and thousands hiding in mountains and farmland from the marauding killers, many of them foreign fighters. According to the Washington Post<\/a>, \u201cwitnesses said the gunmen who wrought carnage were indistinguishable from government forces.\u201d This has resulted in massive displacement, with thousands of civilians seeking refuge anywhere they can, including a Russian military base, churches, and neighboring Lebanon.<\/p>\n

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12 Mar 2025 –\u00a0By arming the sectarian insurgency that now rules Syria, the US and its allies bear responsibility for the current slaughter of Alawite civilians and other minority groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":289911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[3407,3452,703,101,100,1497,715,767,818,99,413,70,126,172],"class_list":["post-289910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria-in-context","tag-abu-mohammed-al-jolani","tag-al-nusra","tag-al-qaeda","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-kurds","tag-massacre","tag-middle-east","tag-proxy-war","tag-structural-violence","tag-syria","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289913,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289910\/revisions\/289913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}