In late June, Syrians experienced the worst attack on a Christian church since 1860
On June 29, 2025, I attended a church service at St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. St. Moses is an Antiochian church, also known as the Church of St. Peter, and harkens back to ancient Antioch, Syria (now Antakya, Turkey)—the birthplace of Christianity.
Quite appropriately, as the pastor of the church, Father Paul Abernathy explained to the parishioners that June 29 is the feast day and the day of the martyrdom of both St. Peter, the founder of the Chrisian Church, and St. Paul who famously was converted to the faith on the road to Damascus, Syria.
In his sermon, Father Abernathy pointed to the modern-day martyrdom of Christians in Syria who are being slaughtered at the hands of an al-Qaeda-dominated government that was installed by the U.S. and its Western allies following a decades-long regime-change operation.
The most dramatic event in this modern period of martyrdom took place just a week before, on Sunday, June 22, 2025, when at least 25 Christians were killed and 52 injured when an attacker fired an automatic weapon into the Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus during the celebration of mass and then set off a bomb inside the church.
Syrians are calling this the worst attack upon a Christian church in Syria since 1860. This is saying a lot because, during the Western regime-change war against Syria from 2011 to 2025, there were numerous assaults upon Christian churches throughout Syria.
The latter were committed by the very forces which have now come to power in Damascus. I have visited ancient Christian churches in places like Homs and Maaloula, Syria, which were violently attacked by a mix of extremist groups—including the Al-Nusra Front of al-Qaeda which was rebranded as HTS and now rules Syria—during the war.
It was the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) of Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah, which had successfully defended these churches from destruction. But, of course, with the overthrow of Assad, there is virtually no protection for these churches.
The Cradle explained that the June 22 bombing at Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus “shattered the fragile sense of protection Syria’s Christians once clung to. The attack is emblematic of the increasingly sectarian rule imposed by Syria’s new leadership—rooted in al-Qaeda ideology and headed by Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani.”
The Cradle continued, “[o]nce dispatched by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to establish the Nusra Front, Sharaa now governs Damascus through the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) apparatus, whose rise was midwifed by a decade of Western regime-change operations. Under this rebranded Salafist extremist authority, the Christian minority—already decimated by war and displacement—faces a renewed wave of targeted violence and official indifference.”
A Massacre Foretold
While shocking, this type of anti-Christian violence should not be surprising given the very explicit goals of the al-Qaeda forces now ruling Syria. As far back as 2012, the U.S.’s own Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) stated it clearly: The Western allies in Syria were backing al-Qaeda to overthrow Assad, and that the goal of al-Qaeda was to establish a radical religious Califate in Syria. And this is exactly what the rebranded al-Qaeda government has done.
Thus, as the non-profit group Global Christian Relief—an organization founded to protect persecuted Christians around the world—has reported:
In March 2025, interim president and militant Islamist Ahmed al-Sharaa signed a constitutional declaration placing Syria under Islamic rule for five years. Tragically, religious minorities, including persecuted Christians, have been targeted or affected by violence in Syria from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamic militant faction that al-Sharaa once commanded:
“Syria had long been under the reign of Bashar al-Assad. Although he committed many human rights violations during his time in power, Syrian Christians and other persecuted religious minorities in Syria found relative stability and predictability under his authoritarian rule. When HTS conquered Assad’s forces and took control of major Syrian cities in December 2024, Christians and other minorities were fearful of the potential changes under the new regime. HTS promised they would not enact radical religious policies, but as time passed, persecution against Christians and other minorities intensified. Militants have attacked churches, desecrated cemeteries, forced Christian women to adhere to Islamic dress codes and confiscated Christians’ homes.”
When I visited Syria in January 2025, the new al-Qaeda government had yet to fully show its hand. While there were acts of persecution against religious minorities, they were limited in number and scope, allowing the new government some plausible deniability for what was happening. Accordingly, many Syrians, while concerned, were taking a wait-and-see attitude about the new regime, which was careful to go slowly with its extremist plans to curry favor with foreign governments.
But once most of the world had accepted the new regime and promised aid and an end to sanctions, and once the Western press corps had left town after their obligatory photo-op with the Sednaya Prison, the new government decided it could fully reveal its hand and begin its terror in earnest without international reprisals.
The Vatican News said it well, when it explained back in March of this year that “[k]illings, kidnappings, theft, harassments, and murders have marked the last few weeks in Syria. The Bashar al-Assad regime fell at the beginning of December and three months later unrest has once again erupted.”
At that time, the Vatican estimated that 4,700 people had already been killed since the fall of Assad and that any doubts about the nature of the new government had now been put to rest. As the Vatican representative in Syria was quoted as saying, “the few certainties that existed [under Assad] are now gone.”
I personally know a number of Syrians, first hopeful and even excited about the fall of Assad, who are now realizing that the new regime is much worse. In Syria, it is now the time of much grinding and gnashing of teeth.
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About the Author
Daniel Kovalik graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1993. He then served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019.
While with the USW, he worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum—cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia.
The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, described Mr. Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.”
Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia.
He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects. He is the author of several books including The Plot To Overthrow Venezuela, How The US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil, which includes a Foreword by Oliver Stone; The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran; and with Jeremy Kuzmarov, Syria: Anatomy of a Regime Change.
Daniel can be reached at dkovalik@outlook.com.
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Details of the victims, according to documentation by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
– A member of the SDF was killed after being targeted by ISIS cells in the town of Al-Jarthi in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
– A young man died of his wounds after being shot by a General Security patrol during a raid on his home in the Al-Qusour neighborhood of Hama.
– The body of a young man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head, a “field execution,” inside his car on the road between Bab Touma and Al-Duwaileh in the capital, Damascus.
– The body of an unidentified young man, bearing signs of severe torture and several bullet wounds, was found near the 33rd Brigade in the town of Jab Al-Safa in the Al-Kiswah area, south of Damascus.
– The body of a young Shiite man was found shot in the head, a “field execution,” and dumped near the town of Tal Aghar, northeast of Homs.
– Members of the Syrian Ministry of Defense, Public Security, and Bedouin militants, during their control of the city of Sweida, executed 52 civilians, including women and children.
– A young man died after being hit by a stray bullet in the al-Tahtuh neighborhood of Deir ez-Zor.
– A girl died after being hit by a stray bullet in the al-Dahadil area of Damascus.
– A citizen was killed when a landmine exploded in the car he was traveling in in the village of Asyan in the eastern Homs desert.
– A child was killed when a cluster bomb left over from the war exploded in the al-Jam’iyat neighborhood of Palmyra.
– A member of the Druze factions and another member of the Syrian government-backed forces were killed in clashes that broke out between the two sides near the town of Najran, northwest of Sweida.
The body of a girl was found murdered, burned, and thrown into a sewer after she was kidnapped today in the town of Mahkan in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside.
I kindly ask IDF to take the Damascus with force and establish an IDF SDF government.
i ask the jews to clear syria as they cleared russia in 1917. they cleanse the country and remove the scourges and build the communism of the workers’ party.
You know that your jihadists didn’t invent this, Slobodan Milošević also knew how to do it and then he lost everything. They did such a thing in Vukovar, thereby paving the way for the dismemberment of Yugoslavia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly84jn000do
Here Dan insults the Syrians as if they too dumb and don’t know what they want and shouldn’t believe in, telling us our choices are bad. The choice to support Assad was bad, now the cleanup and return home can begin for all of us. We are already seeing the same improvements as Julani made in Idlib. We know him and Dan Kovalik doesn’t. My home wasn’t bombed by Julani, it was bombed by Assad and Putin, my family ran for their lives and then they bombed our tents in Idlib like Israel is in Gaza. The US had nothing to do with our choice to support Julani, they simply see what we see. Improving lives and peaceful co-existence, is that what you hate?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly84jn000do
You Syrian people are a genocidal nation, there was once a similarly genocidal nation that destroyed Yugoslavia, and the head of the genocide, Slobodan Milosevic, swallowed pills in prison in Hague and killed himself like a lonely teenager girl.
Your Egyptian criminal Morsi died in prison and you don’t expect us to not go out of Tel Aviv and protect the Kurds from genocide.
Your supporters are committing small suicides. We Jews call these small deaths.
The biblical prophecy will come true and Damascus will be destroyed.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/367139/
https://www.syriahr.com/%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%af-%d8%a3%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%ae%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d9%88%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%a9-%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%aa-%d9%88%d8%b7%d8%a3%d8%a9-%d8%a7/772424/
I hope that Israeli Druze Ghassan Alian will crush HTS to the last jihadist and burn Syria to the ground down to Idlib.
They are so stupid that they will wave Israeli flags in excitement when Ghassan Alian (IDF hero comandante) marches into Damascus. Then a referendum in the style of Russia, which has already taken five regions from Ukraine. Nazi psychopaths gangs like Ukraine and Syria deserve to have parts of their country taken away from them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmpQO7MrhM
This applies to both Jolania and his boss Erdogan.
Daraa will fall soon. It is Sweida’s turn, and Damascus will fall too. When we take the Damascus, Israel will become beautiful.
MK Akram Hasson on Sharaa: ‘How can you accept a killer’ as president?
The veteran politician says American efforts to normalize relations with Ahmed al-Sharaa risk legitimizing a man with a history of mass killings
Former MK Akram Hasson attends a replacing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on November 10, 2024.
Former MK Akram Hasson attends a replacing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
MK Akram Hasson, an Israeli Druze politician and veteran member of the Knesset, sounded the alarm on what he views as an existential threat to the Druze community, Israel, and the broader region.
Hasson—currently a member of the New Hope party and formerly the head of Kadima, where he made history as the first Druze to lead a Jewish party—outlined his concerns about developments in Syria, the rise of interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani), and what he views as misguided US policy in the region.
Hasson, who was born in the Druze town of Daliyat al-Karmel, began by stressing the central role the Druze have played in Syria’s history.
“The Druze in Syria, they are the largest Druze community in the region—around 800,000. We have 152,000 in Israel and about 220,000 in Lebanon,” he explained. “The Druze are Syrian. They helped the Syrian people gain independence in 1925, when they fought the French army. They gave their blood for the state.”
However, Hasson said that the situation changed dramatically under the Assad regime, prompting many Druze to refuse military service to avoid becoming complicit in civilian killings. “They refused to serve in the army—not to be killers.”
Israeli Druze Akram Hasson attends a campaign event for the new centre-right ”National Unity Party”, or Hamahane Hamamlachti in Hebrew, in the Druze village of Hurfeish in northern Israel on October 11, 2022. – Israel’s November 1 election will be its fifth vote in less than four years. (credit: JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
Israeli Druze Akram Hasson attends a campaign event for the new centre-right ”National Unity Party”, or Hamahane Hamamlachti in Hebrew, in the Druze village of Hurfeish in northern Israel on October 11, 2022. – Israel’s November 1 election will be its fifth vote in less than four years. (credit: JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
But the real turning point, Hasson said, was the emergence of Sharaa, a former commander of Jabhat al-Nusra and an internationally designated terrorist.
“I was worried from the beginning because I know this man,” Hasson said. “He was a killer with blood on his hands. He was the head of Jabhat al-Nusra, a big terror organization. He operated in Iraq—we know exactly what he did. Then he returned to Lebanon, and now he comes to Syria and wants to be president. It’s a dirty game.”
Hasson expressed disbelief that anyone could accept Sharaa as a legitimate leader: “How can you accept a killer, a man who belonged to a terror organization, to become president? The US offered $10 million to catch him or bring his head.”
When asked whether the US was “playing with fire” by attempting to normalize Sharaa, Hasson did not mince words. “He will be [a terrorist]. When someone is born a terrorist, he will continue. He will not be democratic.”
Hasson cited Sharaa’s violent actions against minorities—including the Alawites, Yazidis, Druze, and Kurds—as proof. “He tells them, ‘Bring your weapons, be part of Syria,’ and two days later, he kills thousands. He did the same with the Druze. In the future, he will do the same to the Kurds.”
He warned that Sharaa was not acting alone but had the backing of foreign fighters from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, who were being paid to “kill Syrian citizens.” According to Hasson, Sharaa’s rise threatens not only the Druze but also Israel.
“The army, the prime minister, the foreign minister—they all support us,” Hasson said. “Because they know these people will come to Israel, armed, and try to kill civilians, just like Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. You cannot believe these people.”
Trump’s efforts are misguided in the Syrian context
Turning to American policy, Hasson acknowledged that the US, particularly under President Donald Trump, has been a friend to Israel. But he said Trump’s efforts to broker peace in the region through business-focused diplomacy, like the Abraham Accords, are misguided in the Syrian context.
He said that Trump wants peace with Syria and Lebanon to pave the way for Saudi Arabia. But he doesn’t understand how things work in the Middle East. Hasson said. “The only democratic country in the Middle East is Israel. … There is terror everywhere [else].”
He said peace with Syria under Sharaa is impossible unless the leader includes minorities and conducts democratic elections. “Not to kill minorities and destroy cities. You can’t do peace with terror.”
Hasson further criticized Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey for funding and arming Sharaa’s forces. “They give weapons. We see it every day. We’re in the same army in Israel. We hear from our brothers what’s happening; women and children being killed.”
Syria conflict has deeper roots
The media has tended to portray the violence in Syria as a tribal feud, but Hasson said the conflict has deeper roots.
“There’s been tension for 100 years, but now the president gives weapons to the Bedouin to destroy Druze villages like As-Suwayda,” Hasson said. “It’s all part of the game.”
In his view, the solution is clear: “We cannot trust this man. … We must kill this terrible terrorist. And we must destroy his government because they are not Syrian.”
Hasson accused Sharaa of aiming to expand his influence beyond Syria. “He said, ‘We will meet in Jerusalem.’ For what? To have peace?” He added, “We know these people that they have only one way. If you will believe in the Islamic Jihad, in his way and his thinking, you are okay. If you belong to another minority, to another religion, you are against him.”
When asked about reports that the Syrian government had begun removing Bedouin from Druze areas, Hasson said it was a ploy.
“He’s trying to give another picture to America and Israel” that he removed the Bedouin. “But we don’t believe him because just this morning, they bombed our villages in Syria.”
Hasson pointed to Turkey’s role in supplying weapons and pledged to take the issue to international courts. “We’re going to the United Nations with our ambassador, Danny Danon. We will be in the higher court in Holland [the International Criminal Court in The Hague] with all the evidence.”
He concluded the topic of Syria with a bleak prediction: “There’s no peace or future for the Druze in Syria. I ask Israel to take all the area of the Druze from As-Suwayda till Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights.”
Hasson also said he hopes the Kurds—who control large areas in Syria and have experience fighting Turkey—can be part of a future solution. But he warned that Turkey, under President Erdoğan, poses its own threat.
“Erdoğan killed hundreds of thousands of Kurds in Turkey, and he told everyone he is democratic.” Hasson pointed out that Erdoğan even jailed the mayor of Istanbul and is becoming “even more [of a] fanatic.”
He decried the fact that there were no leaders in the region standing with Israel.
Wearing a yellow pin in solidarity with the hostages, Hasson responded with profound emotion when discussing the captives still held in Gaza and the ongoing war.
“We lost our best Druze officers in Gaza. Colonel Ehsan Daksa from my city gave his life.” Regarding bringing the hostages back, Hasson said, “We’ll give our blood” for their return. “It’s humanity.”
Hasson contrasted Israel’s values with those of Hamas. “We believe one soldier’s life means everything. … They have 6,000 Hamas members in our prisons,” and yet, “Nobody [among Hamas] asks about them.”
He acknowledged ongoing negotiations involving the US, Qatar, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, but warned: “No one in our government can accept a future where Hamas continues to rule Gaza.”
“We’re dealing with the largest terror force in the region,” Hasson said. “They don’t believe in God. They don’t believe in life.”
Syrians do not exist, nor does Syria exist. France created states when it conducted social experiments. The social experiment failed because Hussein was hanged and Assad fled. We were in Damascus before Allah, and we will be in Damascus after Allah. It will be ours and it belongs to us.We will only keep people we like and are on the list. The rest will be forcibly expelled to Turkey.
Why is this church preaching politics about another country? Don’t they preach salvation and Christs teachings anymore? This is why the whole world is failing, too much judgement, intolerance and hate. You’re in the wrong church Dan Kovalik.
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews swiftly mobilized its resources in July to aid persecuted Syrian Druze and Christians facing what some have called a genocide carried out by jihadists in southern Syria.
Syrian-backed forces, including jihadist fighters, launched attacks against Syrian Druze in the southern part of the country, resulting in the murders of at least 1,400 people, including a 35-year-old Syrian American from Oklahoma, Hosam Saraya, who was visiting family in Syria.
“Once we saw what was happening in Sweida, we could not turn a blind eye to it.” International Fellowship of Christians and Jews President and Global CEO Yael Eckstein told Fox News Digital.
Her organization, she noted, had never operated in Syria prior to this year but said her organization “got an urgent call from a hospital from Sweida, and they needed basic medicines, surgical care, ICU medicine and equipment, first responder equipment and masks for morgue workers.”
The Fellowship coordinated with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to deliver medicine and equipment to Sweida. Eckstein said her group supplied “retired Israeli ambulances to Syria so the locals can operate them.”
The majority Druze city of Sweida was a focal point of the siege executed by Syrian Islamists loyal to new President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, a former member of U.S.-designated terrorist movements, al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
According to Christian Broadcasting Network, Christians were also targeted. Islamists reportedly murdered Khaled Mazhar, pastor of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church in Sweida, along with 11 family members. An additional person survived the massacre of Christians because the Islamists thought she was dead.
In July, Israel launched military strikes against the largely Bedouin forces on their way to the southern city of Sweida to stop the massacre. Israel also attacked the Syrian Defense headquarters in Damascus to halt the bloodshed in Sweida. Eckstein added that at least “26 Druze villages were fully burned.”
Since Fox News Digital’s interview with Eckstein, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported at “least 30 villages were damaged by arson and destruction.”
Eckstein said the Fellowship first provided aid in Syria in April when Druze in Syria were targeted and killed.
“When we provided 1.500 food boxes to the Druze within 13 kilometers of Israel’s borders after the massacre in April, two days later Islamists burned boxes of the Fellowship,” Eckstein sid.
Israel and Syria do not have diplomatic relations. Syria is considered an enemy state because it has launched multiple wars against Israel since the rebirth of the Jewish state in 1948.
Eckstein said the Fellowship is “operating in enemy territory, and Jews and Christians are providing life-saving aid. Islamists don’t like it. We would like to see that it is in the Syrian government’s interests to receive aid and hope that more goodness will be brought to Syria.
“Now, Jewish people are standing with Christians who are being persecuted in Syria. It is really important to highlight that this is a case of good versus evil and is not just limited to Syria. It is important for Jews and Christians to stand together regarding Judeo-Christian values that sanctify life.”
Aid delivery trucks
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews delivered aid to Druze, Christian and other minorities affected by recent attacks. Trucks entered through Israel’s border with Syria. (The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
TRUMP SIGNS ORDER LIFTING SANCTIONS ON SYRIA
Safwan Marich of the Israeli Druze community runs the Fellowship’s Emergency Response Center and told Fox News Digital that, in the Sweida region, “tyhere is a genocide going on. This needs no further explanation, especially for the Jewish people.
“Once the residents of the deserted village come back, they will understand the magnitude of disaster. Women were kidnapped by jihads, and children were kidnapped and missing.”
Marich has been in contact with his fellow Druze in Syria.
“This war is religious in essence,” he said. “There is a video of Daesh [Islamic State] going to one of the villages asking, ‘Are you a Druze or Sunni?’ And he answered that he is Syrian. He asked him again, so he answered Druze, and he was shot in the middle of the street. It is obvious there is a religious motivation behind this event.
“It is important for me to help the Druze because, first and foremost, I am a Druze. The Druze people are not aggressive and hostile, but they will not sit idly by when they are attacked. We have in the Druze tradition a commandment to help our brothers. To come to aid of Druze community wherever it might be in the world.
Ahmad al-Sharaa looks on during press conference
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not seen) and Syrian interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa hold a press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (Mehmet Ali Ozcan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Marich also noted he is Israeli, and the other day a Druze officer was killed in Gaza. Twelve officers from the Druze community have been killed in Gaza since the war began.
“They died defending Israel and the Jewish people. We have an expectation that Israeli society will come through and stand by Druze community, and so we can defend our brothers in Syria. The state of Israel cannot afford to have Daesh on its borders and in the Golan Heights.”
He pointed to the example of Hamas on the border and its growth as a military danger over the years as a warning about radical Islamists gaining a foothold on the Syrian-Israeli border.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/367101/
Sweida and Damascus must be Israeli. Which country is wrong? Jolani’s Nazi Third Reich?
Ghassan Alian honorably defends the Syrian Druze from the monstrous criminals of the HTS regime. The Russian and Iranian traitors, however, cowardly fled the battlefield.
Damascus was ours before it was yours, and soon it will be ours again.
Are you ever an live in the Soviet Union? I am and I know how it was horrifying and psychopathic. As Ivan Sirko and Jan Sobieski, we will defend our Israel and, of course, our allies of the Kurd and the Druze. We are not afraid of Jolania or her boss Erdogan.
Further details of fatalities, documented by SOHR, can be summarised as follows:
A young man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Al-Namliyah village in northern Deir Ezzor countryside
A 13-year-old child was killed by the explosion of an old landmine, while herding cattle near Um Rajim village in the eastern countryside of Idlib.
Two young men were killed as a body of young man found with body of unidentified person in Tel Kalakh in Homs countryside
37 civilians, including women and children executed by members of Syrian Ministry of Defence, general security, and Bedouin gunmen during their control of Al-Suwaidaa
Two SDF members by ISIS members attack this evening, targeting their military vehicle with machine guns in Al-Bahrah Town, eastern Deir Ezzor countryside.
A young man was killed after being shot by his brother in Hariza Village, part of Al-Basira countryside in eastern Deir Ezzor, following a family dispute.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/367368/
Because the church was there before you and your god.
Damascus was ours before and will soon be ours again. And we will install leaders according to our will, and we will exile Erdogan’s leader into Turkey.
Here once again is new regime bashing from a person who doesn’t live here and is biased and rigid. Kovalik knows nothing but what is made up by his Assad loving friends, most don’t live there and have no real knowledge of Syrians feelings and lives. Kovalik only talks to those who agree with him. Why is his church talking about a place they know nothing of. The church bombers here were caught, none were with HTS. There is no HTS running things. The Road to Damascus changed Paul, just like Julani changed to a better person on the same road.
Your terrorist leader has not changed.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35823559/syria-president-jihadi-al-qaeda/
We will come from Tel Aviv and protect the only real fighters against terrorists, the Kurds.
Isaiah 17:1-3
The burden against Damascus. ‘Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be for flocks which lie down, and no one will make them afraid. The fortress also will cease from Ephraim, the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria…
Jeremiah 49:23-27
Against Damascus. ‘Hamath and Arpad are shamed, for they have heard bad news. They are fainthearted; there is trouble on the sea; it cannot be quiet. Damascus has grown feeble; she turns to flee, and fear has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor. Why is the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy? Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
Amos 1:3, 5
Thus says the Lord: ‘For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment… I will also break the gate bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven…
I wish that the Jews and the terrorist Al Qaeda would clash in the middle of Damascus and around Latakia so that Assad’s idiots could see how it’s done.
We will have Israeli Damascus and we will integrate the Kurds into a civilized, normal state.
Maybe our heroes will arm the Kurds will establish a nice honest state under the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
I like that.
Assad is like a captain who ran away from his ship… Fortunately for Christians and Druze, Israel has a historical right to Damascus…
Don’t worry, it’ll be ours. We’ll take it.
He was a member of HTS from Idlib and he didn’t have a bomb, he just shot Christians in a Christian church. The rifle was given to him by Sultan Erdogan. My Polish and Jewish ancestors fought honorably against the Sultan’s criminal butchers, and so do we. Damascus will be ours.
I agree. We’ll take it.
We are ready to get out of our Tel Aviv and fight for the freedom of Kurds and Druze. We are not afraid of Jolani terrorist butchers and the army of Sultan Erdogan. There is enough of us and we are not afraid. Our men do not surrender to the enemy. And women are struggling we women fight on the front, of all, we do not cry or surrender himself or our Israel. Maher al Assad did the incompetent army of drug addicts.
That’s why he is now drinking in Moscow and left of his people without the protection of the mole criminal regime because both Russia and Iran are ordinary treacherous countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmpQO7MrhM
We are not afraid of Jolania or his crime boss Erdogan.
Further details of fatalities, documented by SOHR, can be summarised as follows:
A young man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Al-Namliyah village in northern Deir Ezzor countryside
A 13-year-old child was killed by the explosion of an old landmine, while herding cattle near Um Rajim village in the eastern countryside of Idlib.
Two young men were killed as a body of young man found with body of unidentified person in Tel Kalakh in Homs countryside
37 civilians, including women and children executed by members of Syrian Ministry of Defence, general security, and Bedouin gunmen during their control of Al-Suwaidaa
Two SDF members by ISIS members attack this evening, targeting their military vehicle with machine guns in Al-Bahrah Town, eastern Deir Ezzor countryside.
A young man was killed after being shot by his brother in Hariza Village, part of Al-Basira countryside in eastern Deir Ezzor, following a family dispute.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/367368/
I hope this better person is removed by Katz’s army.
We will protect the Kurds and Druze because they love us. We will expel the genocidal mob to Turkey and restore Damascus to its former glory. It was ours and we will get it back.
Syrians were once proud of their diversity, soon they will be proud of their genocide and when other countries start calling them a genocidal nation.
If this continues, we will soon start calling the Syrians a genocidal nation.