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From ISIS to Government: al-Sharaa’s Deadly Sectarian Rule in Syria

Josh Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, discusses the brutal massacres of Druze and Alawite communities in Syria by the HTS-backed interim government led by former ISIS and al-Qaeda commander Ahmad al-Sharaa.

Despite al-Sharaa’s attempts to distance himself from the violence, Landis makes clear that these killings were carried out by al-Sharaa’s own forces, not rogue militias, as part of a sectarian campaign that deepens Syria’s fragmentation.

@joshua_landis recounts how soldiers of al-Sharaa’s regime justified executing a Syrian Alawite father’s sons before his eyes.

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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