Syria extends the deadline for a probe into coastal killings of Alawites
- Syria's presidency extended a probe into the killings of Alawite civilians on the coast on March 6.
- Clashes between government forces and armed groups loyal to former President Assad caused the violence.
- Islamist-Led groups launched assaults on coastal areas, and retaliatory attacks included raids and arson.
- Over 1,000 civilians, mostly Alawites, died; Amnesty International reported at least 32 were targeted in Baniyas.
- President Sharaa formed a fact-finding committee and extended its deadline, but concerns about accountability remain.
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Syria presidential decree extends probe into sectarian massacres
Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday extended by three months the deadline for an investigation into the massacre of hundreds of members of the Alawite minority community which followed an uprising of armed fighters loyal to ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa issued a presidential decree extending the work of the National Committee for Investigation and Fact-Finding regarding the events in the Syrian coast. The decree was issued bas…
Syria’s Sharaa grants three-month extension to committee probing coastal killings
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings of Alawites on Syria’s coast last month, the deadliest episode of sectarian violence since Sunni Islamist rebels seized power. Hundreds of Alawites were killed in Syria’s western coastal region in early March in apparent retribution for a deadly ambush on Syria’s new security forces by armed loyalists t…
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