Last week, The Nordic Timesreported that Alawites and other minorities are being subjected to massacres and purges under Syria’s new Western-backed Salafist regime.
Despite the alarms, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, now announces that it has decided to increase aid to the country and donate an additional Є2.5 billion.
– Syrians need greater support, whether they are still abroad, or they decide to go home, von der Leyen proclaimed according to AFP.
– The EU is increasing its pledge to €2.5 billion for 2025 and 2026 – we call on others to step up, she continued.
We will continue to address the humanitarian needs, both within Syria and in host communities across Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Türkiye.
And we will support Syria’s recovery.
The EU is increasing its pledge to €2.5 billion for 2025 and 2026 — we call on others to step up.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) March 17, 2025
In addition, international donors have pledged an additional €5.8 billion in aid – slightly less than the €7.5 billion pledged at the EU donors’ meeting last year.
Representatives of the jihadist regime were also invited to a conference in Brussels on the future of Syria, where the EU stated that “we are all having an interest in the stabilization of Syria”.
Fathers murdered in front of their children
Since Syria’s secular leader, Bashar al-Assad, was overthrown in December, those in power in the West have systematically tried to legitimize the new regime and tried to portray them as a moderate force and legitimate partner.
However, The Nordic Times has previously highlighted how HTS, which seized power in the country, was until recently considered a terrorist organization with close ties to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. It has also highlighted how Syria’s new leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, founder of al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, was listed as a “global terrorist” by the US as recently as 2013.
The ousted leader Bashar al-Assad belonged to the country’s Alawite minority, while the forces in power today are Sunni Muslims. Recently, a number of Alawite villages and communities were subjected to widespread mass killings and cleansing campaigns – in what is believed to be “revenge” for the minority’s past support for Assad.
Witnesses describe how the killers arrived by car in smaller communities and then searched all the buildings and executed all the men they found – often in front of their families.
A large number of clips have also been posted on social media showing Alawites being forced to grovel, bark like dogs or otherwise humiliate themselves before being tortured or killed.
