2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites

A series of mass killings and massacres against Alawites occurred in Syria from 6 March 2025 to 17 March 2025, with a resurgence in early April. They were part of communal and sectarian violence by fighters aligned with the Syrian caretaker government (including locally mobilised civilians, Syrian National Army (SNA) militias and Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah), in addition to armed remnants of the former Assad regime against government forces. The typical pattern of the attacks involved gunmen showing up at civilians' doors, interrogating them by asking whether they are Alawite or Sunni, and then targeting and killing them based solely on their response. The events followed large-scale attacks by pro-Assad insurgents on 6 March as well as the ongoing clashes in Western Syria in the Syrian civil war. As of 17 March 2025, the UK-based independent monitoring group Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported that 1,084 people, including civilians...