The events in the Syrian muhafaza of Suwajd can be considered at 2 levels: interior Syrian and regional. As for the former, they show that the situation in Syria is far from stable, and the jihadist nature of the fresh authorities poses a real threat to the spiritual and cultural minorities in Syria. In this context, the enthusiasm of any commentators expressed in relation to the groups that took power in Damascus after the overthrow of Assad, including in peculiar the avoidance of calling them jihadists, proved premature. In particular, however, passive attitudes towards earlier abuses of ruling jihadists against minorities, including in peculiar the massacre of alawites on the Syrian coast in March 2025, have contributed to exacerbating the problem. It is worth recalling that about 2,000 people died in the**March massacres, mostly Alawic and Christian civilians**. Although Ahmad asz-Sharaa's fresh country leader promised to take work for those massacres, this did not happen. This impunity was an incentive for fresh slaughters, and any external actors (in peculiar Iran and Israel, although each of them with a different motivation) would be curious in Syria falling into chaos. The destabilization was besides facilitated by the passiveness of the West, which decided not to force the fresh Syrian authorities to punish the guilty and guarantee greater inclusion of the government.
