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'October 7 moment for Kurds': Israel must assist Syria's Kurds amid attacks, analysts tell 'Post'

Over the last decade, the SDF worked with the US and defeated ISIS in Syria. However, now the SDF is facing major setbacks, and Kurds fear they may be massacred.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A Kurdish internal security forces member stands guard with a weapon as Syrian Kurds attend a protest in solidarity with the people in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in Aleppo, in Hasakah, Syria January 7, 2026.
Ayman Abu Hadir, assistant to the Foreign Minister, meets with Alawite leader Dr. Tamim Khromachou.

Only Israel condemned Sharaa’s massacres, Syrian Alawite leader to ‘Post’ - interview

Sectarian violence has plagued Syria long before Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which splintered from al-Qaeda, took control of the country last year.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Members of the Syrian Security forces stand guard near military vehicles on the day people from the Alawite sect protest as they demand federalism and an end to what they say is the killing and violations against Alawites, in Latakia, Syria, December 28, 2025.

Syrian security forces impose curfew in Latakia following deadly protests, violence

Security forces reinforced their deployment in a number of neighborhoods in Latakia city on the Mediterranean coast, which witnessed riots on Monday that injured about a dozen people.

|ByREUTERS
People from the Alawite sect protest as they demand federalism and an end to what they say is the killing and violations against Alawites, in Latakia, Syria, December 28, 2025

Three killed as Alawite protest in Syria’s Latakia turns violent

Three people were killed and more than 40 were wounded after gunfire erupted during an Alawite protest in Syria’s Latakia province, as demonstrators called for federalism and prisoner releases.

|ByREUTERS

Held at gunpoint, with minutes to leave: How Syria evicts Alawites from their homes

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: Armed individuals evicted people without a court order, prevented them from taking their belongings, and then moved in.

MAY 3, 2025ByAMINA ISMAIL
SINCE SYRIA’S President Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in December, hundreds of Alawites have been forced from their private homes in Damascus by the security forces. Here, a man marches with a sign depicting a collage of pictures of victims of the recent wave of sectarian violence, targeting Syria’s

More than a dozen killed in sectarian clashes near Syrian capital

The fighting marked the latest episode of deadly sectarian violence in Syria and increased fears of violence against minorities.

APRIL 29, 2025ByREUTERS
Druze gather to contact their relatives on the Syrian side of the border from the Israeli Golan Heights.

Syria's sectarian violence reached capital, terrorizing Alawites, residents say

Amid fears of wider sectarian conflict across Syria, Sharaa's government took pains to emphasize in the wake of the violence that the killings were geographically limited.

MARCH 27, 2025ByREUTERS
A Syrian Alawite family rides on a truck to return home, in Latakia, Syria March 13, 2025.

Minorities abandoned: Europe's double standard on Islamist oppression in the Middle East - opinion

Just weeks after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Europeans rushed to meet with the new master of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa. They remain in favor of a Palestinian state, and rush to condem Israel.

MARCH 19, 2025ByFREDDY EYTAN
European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen meet with foreign ministers of different Middle Eastern states, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to discuss developments in Syria, on Dec. 14, 2024.

Russia urges Syrians sheltering at Hmeimim air base to leave

Alawites seeking asylum headed towards the Russian air base earlier in March. Russia has distanced itself from the responsibility of protecting the civilians who turned to its base for safety.

MARCH 18, 2025ByRIZIK ALABI/THE MEDIA LINE
This aerial picture shows cars queing as civilians take refuge from violence at the Hmeimim Russian base in Syria's Latakia Mediterranean province on March 11, 2025.

Syria’s Christians fear for future after deadly sectarian violence

Recent sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal region deepened fears among the shrinking Christian minority about their future and prompting church leaders to urge national reconciliation.

MARCH 16, 2025ByRIZIK ALABI/THE MEDIA LINE
Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria, on March 7, 2025.

Syrians trickle home from sanctuary at Russian air base

Some Syrians trickle home from a Russian air base after sectarian killings, but many still fear for their safety.

MARCH 14, 2025ByREUTERS
Syrian Alawite woman Rana Bousheh, 34, leaves the Hmeimim air base with her family, to return to her village, in Latakia, Syria March 13, 2025.

Silence speaks volumes: Media coverage of Syrian Alawite killings must be criticized - editorial

This is exactly the kind of violence that should have international media splashing over, but it didn’t get the attention it deserves.

MARCH 12, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL
A man assists a those who fled the violence in western Syria, at the Nahr El Kabir River. March 11, 2025.

Alawite Syrians to 'Post': We need Israel's help from jihadist atrocities - exclusive

“Al-Sharaa’s forces are carrying out ethnic cleansing against the ‘infidels,’” a Syrian Alawite told the Jerusalem Post

MARCH 11, 2025ByOHAD MERLIN
A man receives a blanketed child from another crossing the Nahr al-Kabir river, forming the border between Syria's western Latakia province and northern Lebanon in the Hekr al-Daher area on March 11, 2025, as families from Syria's Alawite minority enter Lebanon to flee from sectarian violence