While figures are hard to corroborate, estimates range from somewhere between 7,000 to 17,000 Alawites and Christians have been slaughtered in the coastal regions of Syria by terrorist forces in the last several weeks. 15,000 are also reported missing.Other sources put the figures much higher.
Indeed, the killing of Alawites and Christians by terrorist forces never stopped, even after the fall of Assad. Yet, in recent weeks, the killings have intensified to unprecedented levels.
In the days following the fall of the Assad government some former members of the Syrian Arab Army and others formed resistance and protection militias focused in areas that are predominately Alawite, located on the Syrian coast for the purposes of self defense. In the last two weeks, HTS forces began committing numerous atrocities against Alawites in the coastal region, prompting a response from the protection militias who struck back at HTS.
