Photo of Miqdad al-Fatiha, taken from the X account of Hassan Alkaabi, an activist and writer based in Iraq.
“Through our blood and our martyrs, the image of al-Jolani and his de facto government has been ruined,” Miqdad al-Fatiha declared Tuesday, March 18, referring to the massacres of civilians — mostly Alawites — in the coastal regions of Tartous and Latakia.Fatiha, head of the Coastal Shield Brigade (Liwa Dir al-Sahel), took part in a large-scale ambush in early March against transitional forces, orchestrated by cells loyal to the former regime. The attack ignited further violence, killing over 1,225 civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, while the Syrian Network for Human Rights reports the number to be closer to 961.After a week of massacres along the Syrian coast, Fatiha appeared in a video wearing a uniform of the new security forces — supposedly taken from a killed soldier — threatening Damascus authorities...
“Through our blood and our martyrs, the image of al-Jolani and his de facto government has been ruined,” Miqdad al-Fatiha declared Tuesday, March 18, referring to the massacres of civilians — mostly Alawites — in the coastal regions of Tartous and Latakia.Fatiha, head of the Coastal Shield Brigade (Liwa Dir al-Sahel), took part in a large-scale ambush in early March against transitional forces, orchestrated by cells loyal to the former regime. The attack ignited further violence, killing over 1,225 civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, while the Syrian Network for Human Rights reports the number to be closer to 961.After a week of massacres along the Syrian coast, Fatiha appeared in a video wearing a uniform of the new security forces — supposedly taken from a killed soldier — threatening Damascus...