The US and Russia jointly called on the United Nations Security Council to meet each other about the spiral violence in Syria, after more than 1,000 people were slaughtered this week.
Diplomats said last night that they had called for the closed door meeting to discuss the bitter violence that broke out on Thursday after armed men loyal to Assad to Assad attacked the new safety forces of Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, the total number of civil martyrs was 973 – including women and children.
In addition, 125 members of the Government Security Force and 148 were killed with armed groups affiliated with Assad.
The watchdog said that the 'murders, field performances and ethnic cleaning operations' were underway in the aftermath of fatal collisions between security forces and Alawite Schutters who are loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
It added that electricity and drinking water were cut off in large areas in the city of Latakia.
The collisions are some of the deadliest since the conflict of Syria started 14 years ago, and meant a major escalation in the challenge for the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents had taken the authority after removing Assad from the power.
Syria's leader Ahmed Ahmed al-Sharaa sworn last night to give the perpetrators of the massacre 'no clementia', adding that they would be held responsible.
Syrian security forces patrolled in a street in the city after violence that took place in the previous days during collisions between government forces and supporters of the former Syrian regime, in the city of Jableh Latakia, Syria, March 9, 2025
The US and Russia jointly called on the United Nations Security Council (photo) to meet each other about the spiral violence in Syria
Syrian mourners live the funeral of a member of the security forces killed in an attack by groups loyal to the deposed President Bashar al-Assad, in the province of Hama on Sunday
He said, “We will keep responsible, sturdy and without a clement, everyone involved in the bloodshed of citizens … or who exceeded the powers of the state.”
Earlier on Sunday, the presidency on Telegram announced that an 'independent committee' had been formed to 'investigate the violations against citizens and those who are responsible for them' who encounter the courts.
It comes after the top diplomat of the US, State Secretary Marco Rubio, called Sharaa to hold the perpetrators responsible.
He wrote on X: 'The United States condemn the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadists, who have killed people in western Syria in recent days.
'The United States stands with the religious and ethnic minorities of Syria, including the Christian, Druze, Alawiet and Kurdish communities, and offers its participation to the victims and their families.
“The interim authorities of Syria must keep the perpetrators of these slaughter against the minority communities of Syria responsible.”
Witnesses revealed how women were reportedly told to 'walk naked' before they were shot in the midst of horrible scenes in Syria.
The new authorities have repeatedly promised an inclusive transition that protects the rights of religious minorities.
According to the UK established Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, more than 1,000 people were killed in two days of violence (funeral of security forces)
Syrian armed men attend the funeral on Sunday of a member of the security forces killed in an attack by groups
A Syrian armed man fires the air during the funeral on March 9
The Alawite Heartland is nevertheless taken by a fear of reprisals about the decades of brutal rule of the Assad clan.
Baniyas resident Samir Haidar, 67, told AFP two of his brothers and his cousin were killed by 'armed groups' who entered the houses of people.
Although an alawiet itself, Haidar belonged to the left -wing opposition among the Assads and he was imprisoned for more than a decade.
He said that on Friday morning he started to hear explosions and gunfire with the arrival of troops used in the city, and added that there were “foreigners among them.”
“They entered the building and killed my only neighbor,” he said.
He managed to escape with his wife and two children to a Sunni neighborhood, but said, “If I had been five minutes late, I would be killed.”
The same day, armed men came away from his brother 100 meters (meters).
“They gathered all men on the roof and opened fire on them,” said Haidar. “My cousin survived because he hid himself, but my brother was killed together with all the men in the building.”
He added that another brother, who was 74, and cousin was killed together with all the men in their building.
“There are houses with four or five dead bodies in it,” said Haidar. “We have appealed to be able to bury our dead,” he said, adding that he cannot bury his brothers so far.
In the port city of Latakia, residents said that armed groups have kidnapped a number of alawites that were killed.
Among them was the head of a state-running cultural center, Yasser Sabbouh, who was abducted and whose corpse was dumped outside his house, a AFP reporter said.
In Jableh further south, a resident said in tears that they were terrorized by armed groups that had taken over the city over the city.
'There are six of us in the house, with my parents and my brothers. There has been no electricity for four days, no water. We have nothing to eat and we dare not go out, “he said on condition of anonymity, for fear of his safety.
