Syria is gripped by its most intense bloodshed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad three months prior.
On March 6th, Sunni fighters unleashed a wave of terror across the Alawite heartlands, the very region that birthed the Assads and their loyalists. The atrocities they committed are not just acts of war; they are calculated displays of inhumanity.
Homes were torched. Lives were extinguished indiscriminately.
In villages near Latakia, masked fighters reveled in their cruelty, forcing men to bark like dogs before executing them on film. These weren't battlefield skirmishes; these were deliberate acts of humiliation and barbarity.
Eyewitnesses paint a chilling portrait: streets littered with corpses, rows of homes reduced to charred husks.
Hundreds of thousands have abandoned their lives, seeking refuge in the hills and forests along the coast.
One Alawite in Jableh recounts hiding in paralyzing fear as Sunni jihadists systematically searched for victims, going door to door with chilling precision.
Ahmed al-Sharaa faces an imminent test: to prove the sincerity of his vision for a new, inclusive Syria. The world watches, waiting to see if genuine change can emerge from this horrific chaos.