Activists and local sources revealed that four people from the Alawite community were killed in prisons affiliated with HTS in Homs, after their arrest in January 2025.
The victims, Fawaz Saleh Hatem, Muhammad Ghanim Qassem, Haider Ghanim Qassem, and Osama Abdo Khaddour, were executed without trial, according to their families, who later discovered the incident.
The sources pointed out that the executions were carried out because of their sectarian affiliation, as they were secretly buried in the Tal Al-Nasr cemetery in Homs, which contains the remains of hundreds of detainees who were killed under torture or executed.
Rural Hama: Father and son killed by Turkmen factions
In the village of Musa al-Houla in the western countryside of Hama, Yousef al-Jeddawi and his son Hassan al-Jeddawi, from the Alawite sect, were killed by Turkmen gunmen led by Muhammad al-Mukhtar and Abu Hajir, in cooperation with members of the General Security of the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham. According to local sources, the attack was part of a “systematic campaign to displace Alawites” from the mixed Alawite-Turkmen village.
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Rural Jableh: A young man disappeared and bodies were found in a sewage pit
In the countryside of Jableh, contact was lost with the young man Ahmed Fidaa Sawada from the village of Al-Rahabiya as he was heading to the town of Harisoun in Baniyas on the morning of 19 August, and there is no information about his fate so far.
In the same context, the bodies of nine people were found in a sewage pit in a villa near the highway in the village of Bustan al-Basha. The odds are that the victims may have been abductees or victims of the Sahel massacres.
According to local sources, the villa was under the control of a faction affiliated with HTS, and belonged to Hassan Younis, a former officer in the Syrian army. The sources confirmed that most of the houses of former Syrian army officers were seized by HTS factions to be used as headquarters.
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The sources accused media outlets affiliated with Hay ‘at Tahrir al-Sham of “misinformation” by trying to link the massacre to the Assad regime, although the bodies, which were wearing winter civilian clothes and showed signs of incomplete decomposition, indicate that the incident took place a few months ago, not a decade ago.
Homs: Five children killed in August
In the city of Homs, five children were killed in August: Ghina Jassim Al-Hassan (15 years old), Juliana Muhammad Idris (10 years old), Hala Ali Qattan (5 years old), Dala Muhammad Al-Asaad (14 years old), and Natalie Muhammad Al-Asaad (7 years old). Local sources confirmed that the victims, who belong to the Alawite and Shiite sects, were killed by the fire of General Security elements affiliated with HTS or militants working in cooperation with them. She pointed out that these operations take place in neighborhoods with an Alawite or Shiite majority, without those involved being arrested or held accountable.
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