{"id":3377,"date":"2014-02-10T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2014-02-10T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:22:39","slug":"islamist-fighters-seize-village-in-syrias-hama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/02\/10\/3377\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamist fighters seize village in Syria\u2019s Hama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/syria-valige.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>An Alawite village in the central province of Hama was seized by Islamist fighters on Sunday, Reuters news agency reported, adding that the fighting was \u201cpart of an offensive to try to cut off supply routes from Damascus to the north of the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fighters, battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s forces, allegedly killed 25 people in the village of Maan, mainly from a pro-Assad National Defense Force militia, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Authorities gave a different death count, saying the dead were mainly women and children and accused the fighters of committing a massacre on the eve of the resumption of peace talks in Geneva.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThis massacre isn\u2019t the first,\u201d Social Affairs Minister Kind al-Shamat told Syrian television, saying similar attacks had taken place during the nearly three-year conflict and been ignored by the outside world.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Residents of Maan, east of Syria&#8217;s main north-south highway, are from the same Alawite minority as the Assad family which has ruled Syria for the last four decades. Rebels fighting to overthrow Assad are overwhelmingly from the country&#8217;s Sunni Muslim majority, backed by Islamist and jihadi fighters from across the Islamic world.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe feel the insistence of the international community, including those attending Geneva, to divert attention to areas which are not suffering to the same extent as these regions,\u201d Shamat said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cUnfortunately we don\u2019t hear condemnation from any international organization of these massacres taking place in these villages,\u201d she added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Video footage released on Sunday showed a rebel fighter performing Muslim prayers on top of a municipal building after the seizure of Maan, one of several sites in Hama targeted by the rebels in recent days. Another video showed the dead body of a pro-Assad fighter, according to Reuters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since March 2011, the violent episodes of unrest in Syria have claimed the lives of 130,000 people, including civilians, rebel fighters and Assad&#8217;s forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Alarabiya<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alawite village in the central province of Hama was seized by Islamist fighters on Sunday, Reuters news agency reported, adding that the fighting was \u201cpart of an offensive to try to cut off supply routes from Damascus to the north of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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