March 2025 Western Syria clashes

Summary

March 2025 Western Syria clashes were a phase of the Western Syria clashes, which followed the fall of the Assad regime and end of the Syrian civil war. On 6 March, there was a "large and coordinated" ambush by Assad loyalist insurgents at the town of Jableh near the city of Latakia. The Syrian Armed Forces launched a counter-insurgency operation, which ended on 10 March. During and after this operation, over 1,000 Alawites were killed by government and allied forces in a series of massacres that have been alleged to constitute genocide.