By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-11 16:53:23 | Updated at 2024-12-22 07:09:13
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Extremist groups carry out revenge, sectarian killings in HTS-controlled Syria
Cradle ^ | DEC 10, 2024 | News Desk
Posted on 12/11/2024 8:25:08 AM PST by george76
Dozens of summary executions have been reported across the country since former Al-Qaeda and ISIS leaders took control of Damascus..
Extremist armed factions across Syria are carrying out executions of civilians and soldiers amid the chaos following the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's government.
Al Mayadeen reports on 10 December that a video circulating on social media shows armed militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Al-Qaeda offshoot that took control of Damascus on Saturday, carrying out field executions of unarmed men in the village of Al-Rabia in the countryside of Latakia.
The militants referred to the men as ‘Shabiha’, a derogatory term long used to describe pro-government Syrian soldiers and civilians.
The HTS military operations administration reported ongoing clashes in Al-Rabia, including the encirclement of a group of officers inside a fortified farm in the village, Al Mayadeen stated.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Tuesday that, according to its sources, the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) carried out executions and assaulted properties of nearly 30,000 Kurdish families in Manbij City.
In the Nawaha and Al-Asadiya neighborhoods, SNA militants burned houses of civilians, stole their property, and executed at least three people, including a woman, SOHR added.
On Monday, ISIS militants killed 54 Syrian army soldiers who were fleeing an attack by the terror group in the central province of Homs.
ISIS militants captured “personnel fleeing military service in the desert ... during the collapse of the regime” of president Bashar al-Assad and "executed 54" of them in the Sukhna area in the Homs desert, SOHR stated.
Syrian sources reported the assassination on Tuesday of Sheikh Tawfiq al-Bhouti by unknown attackers.
Bhouti was the son of the world-renowned Sunni Muslim scholar Sheikh Muhammad Saeed Ramadan al-Bhouti, who was assassinated along with 40 others in a mosque in 2013 by members of the Nusra Front, now known as HTS. The elder Bhouti was an advocate of Sufism, and an opponent of Salafi interpretations of Islam that teach hatred against non-Muslims. Bhouti was a strong supporter of Bashar al-Assad's government and spoke against the extremist armed groups attacking Syrian civilians, police, and soldiers during the war that began in 2011.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Syria; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; isil; isis; muslim; muslims; shabiha; sunni; sunnimuslim; sunnimuslims; syria
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1 posted on 12/11/2024 8:25:08 AM PST by george76
To: george76
I’m sure they are poring over government pay records to see who a were paid informants.............
2 posted on 12/11/2024 8:37:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: george76
The continued carnage was inevitble. What Assad did in secret in his prisons the rebels are willing to do openly. So how are the “rebels” better than Assad? They aren’t.
3 posted on 12/11/2024 8:38:03 AM PST by Wuli
To: george76
Extremist groups carry out revenge, sectarian killings in HTS-controlled Syria
No worries, these Extremist Groups are US approved Good Guys that valiantly opposed Assad.
Things are going according to CIA and State Department Plan.
4 posted on 12/11/2024 8:44:52 AM PST by Navy Patriot (I Voted For President Trump, Celebrate Recivilization!)
To: Wuli
So how are the “rebels” better than Assad? They aren’t.
You are correct sir. They aren’t. Assad was a scum bag, but these guys, may be as bad, or worse.
5 posted on 12/11/2024 8:47:03 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
To: george76
All these named groups. HTS, isn't that the old Al-Nusra?
It's kind of like the Democrat, Progressive, Socialists monikers. It's all the same suspects.
6 posted on 12/11/2024 8:47:11 AM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)
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