#WesternSyria : #Suqaylabiyah Attacked Three Times This Year by Gunmen from Qalaat al-Mudiq, So Where Is the Accountability? And Why Do They Find It So Easy to Attack the City Again and Again?
Suqaylabiyah, a Christian-Orthodox-majority city, was attacked during 2026 by a group of Jolani regime thugs coming from the town of #Qalaat al-Mudiq three times this year, in March, in July, and yesterday in October.
Official media claimed yesterday that a "brawl" had taken place and that they had detained "those involved." What official media did not say is that yesterday, a group of pro-Jolani thugs attacked the city, opened fire, vandalized and smashed shops, and wounded a woman with gunfire, and that the #HTS-led General Security militias arrested young men from Suqaylabiyah because they tried to stop the attack on their shops.
So where is the accountability when the same city is attacked repeatedly, three times in a single year? Are the attackers arrested? Are they held accountable? They find it easy to carry out the attack each time because they know there will be no consequences for it.
In the end, the Christian presence in Syria continues to shrink, with emigration rising as a result of growing extremism and the danger it poses to them and their property, and due to the absence of a state or Security apparatus to provide them with protection.