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To: Les H who wrote (49878)	12/28/2025 9:38:42 AM
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Syrian Alawites protest in Latakia after deadly mosque bombing in Homs Alawites decried the latest sectarian attack on the community which killed eight in Homs, and called for federalism and some form of regional autonomy. New Arab, December 28, 2025 Syrian Alawites took to the streets on Sunday in the coastal city of Latakia to protest after a mosque bombing that killed eight people in Homs two days before. The attack, which took place in an Alawite area of Homs city, was the latest against the religious minority, which has been the target of several episodes of sectarian violence since the December 2024 fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, himself an Alawite. Security forces were deployed in the area, and intervened to break up clashes between demonstrators and counter-protesters, an AFP correspondent witnessed. "Why the killing? Why the assassination? Why the kidnapping? Why these random actions without any deterrent, accountability or oversight?" said protester Numeir Ramadan, a 48-year-old trader. "Assad is gone, and we do not support Assad... Why this killing?" Sunday's demonstration came after calls from prominent spiritual leader Ghazal Ghazal, head of the Islamic Alawite Council in Syria and Abroad, who on Saturday urged people to "show the world that the Alawite community cannot be humiliated or marginalised". "We do not want a civil war, we want political federalism. We do not want your terrorism. We want to determine our own destiny," he said in a video message on Facebook. Protesters carried pictures of Ghazal along with banners expressing support for him, while chanting calls for decentralised government authority and a degree of regional autonomy. "Our first demand is federalism to stop the bloodshed, because Alawite blood is not cheap, and Syrian blood in general is not cheap. We are being killed because we are Alawites," Hadil Salha, a 40-year-old housewife said. Most Syrians are Sunni Muslim, and the city of Homs - where Friday's bombing took place - is home to a Sunni majority but also has several areas that are predominantly Alawite, a community whose faith stems from Shia Islam. The community is otherwise mostly present across their coastal heartland in Latakia and Tartus provinces. Syrian Alawites protest in Latakia after deadly mosque bombing The Kurds have their own semi-autonomous region in NE Syria which is controlled by their own militia, the SDF. It's not clear that the Alawites have organized militarily since the fall of the government.