Protests in Syria as video showing attack on shrine surfaces that rallies thousands of people in Syria to take to the streets to protest a video showing an attack on an Alawite shrine, which the new government don’t deny but say is “old” and republished by “unknown groups to stir up strife”.
Members of Syria’s new police force have been killed in clashes in Tartus province, marking the most violent night since the ousting of the Assad regime. This is troubling the entire middle east that is divided between support for the freedom of the Syrian people but troubled by the Terror group that has come into power, especially with backing of Israel and US.
Trust in the United States is an all time low
Trust in the United States is an all time low, in particular with the genocide in Gaza which the UK and US have enabled by supporting the Israeli regime.
The Syrian transitional government, which is dominated by the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, said its forces were carrying out a security operation in Tartus on Wednesday night when they were ambushed by people loyal to deposed president Bashar al-Assad.
loyalists are fighting Israel from taking Syrian land
But reports on the ground suggest these loyalists are fighting Israel as well from taking Syrian land, which they believe Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have willingly negotiated as part of staying in power with Israeli and US government.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham was a faction of Al Qaeda and since its inception has been a known terror group, that was until recently, when it suddenly, befriended the US and UK governments and stormed to power in Damascus.
Protests in Syria are likely to continue
Fourteen members of the new interior ministry’s office were killed. The fighting in Tartus, a coastal province and Assad regime bastion, and has provided that loyalists to take back the country from invading forces. Alawites is a Syrian minority sect that Assad belongs to and empowered.
Some videos also showed rebel fighters stepping on dead bodies at the shrine’s entrance. The interim government said the videos circulating on social media showing a fire engulfing the Alawite mausoleum in Aleppo were old and dated back to when HTS took control of the city weeks ago.
The motive behind republishing them was to “stir up strife among the Syrian people during this sensitive stage”, said the interior ministry.