Editor’s note: Sectarian Sunni forces linked to the new HTS-led government of Syria have massacred over 1300 Alawites in the past week, according to a conservative estimate. The Grayzone has spoken to staff from a Western aid organization currently on the ground in Syria who say the death toll is much higher than the official count. They told us that over 4000 Alawites have been killed, thousands are wounded with little access to medical assistance, and some 200,000 are internally displaced, in hiding from sectarian death squads that have destroyed entire villages and conducted widespread looting. A source from the aid organization said the violence erupted when Alawi self-defense militias with no loyalty to the former Assad government attacked HTS forces, causing over a dozen casualties this March after withstanding three months of regular attacks and abuses. Calls for the genocide of Alawites quickly grew within pro-HTS Sunni sectors of Syria which eerily resembled those by Jewish Israelis baying for the blood of Palestinians after October 7.Continue reading ““Thousands reported killed in Syria as HTS-allied forces attack, execute Alawites” — By Antiwar Dot Com and The Grayzone “→
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers screen international passengers arriving at the Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., 2016. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Flickr/Glenn Fawcett/U.S. government). A federal agent was waiting for the author soon after he got off an international flight. He was then treated to a brief but disturbing question-and-answer session.Continue reading ““Max Blumenthal: Why Did the Feds Question Me?” —”→