Documenting the Black March 2025 Massacres · Tartous & Lattakia
Memorializing the Massacres
of the Coast
Documenting the victims and massacres of Black March 2025 in the coastal region. Honoring the martyrs and documenting the truth.
26,000+
Refugees in Lebanon from Black March Massacres
Affected Areas
Massacre Areas
Tartous
Baniyas
March 7-9, 2025
Between March 7 and 9, 2025, armed groups swept through Baniyas — a port city on the Mediterranean coast — in …
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Tartous
Khirbet al-Qabu
March 2025
As HTS factions swept through the Baniyas countryside in March 2025, the small Alawite village of Khirbet al-Q…
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Lattakia
Jableh
March 6-11, 2025
From March 6 to 11, 2025, Jableh and its surrounding countryside were subjected to a sustained campaign of kil…
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Lattakia
Al-Mukhtariya
March 7, 2025
On March 7, 2025, extremist factions operating under the new military leadership descended on Al-Mukhtariya an…
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Lattakia
Sonobar
March 2025
Sonobar — named for the pine forests covering its hills — sits in the Jableh countryside. Stone houses, agricu…
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Lattakia
Qardaha
March 2025
Qardaha sits high in the Lattakia mountains, and for centuries that elevation had offered its communities some…
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Lattakia
Al-Dautor
March 6-10, 2025
On March 7, armed groups raided the Al-Dautor neighbourhood of Lattakia city, killing 65 civilians and leaving…
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Lattakia
Al-Haffa
March 2025
What the video evidence from Al-Haffa captured is not the chaos of combat. It is the cold geometry of a mass e…
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Lattakia
Qarfis
March 6-11, 2025
Between March 6 and 11, 2025, the village of Qarfis in the Lattakia countryside was subjected to a five-day as…
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Lattakia
Shalfatiya
March 8, 2025
On March 8, 2025, Al-Shalfatiya in the Lattakia countryside became the site of a massacre documented in part t…
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Lattakia
Brabshbo
March 2025
Brabshbo is a farming village in the Lattakia countryside, a community whose life was built around its olive g…
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Lattakia
Shrifa
March 7, 2025
The massacre in Shrifa on March 7, 2025, did not arrive without warning. In the weeks before, religious platfo…
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Lattakia
Daliya
March 6, 2025
The events in Daliya show how a minor local incident was transformed — deliberately — into a pretext for overw…
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Lattakia
Al-Rasafa
March 7, 2025
The attack on Al-Rasafa on March 7, 2025, is among the most thoroughly documented atrocities of the coastal ca…
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Tartous
Al-Hattaniya
March 9, 2025
On the evening of March 9, 2025, residents of Al-Hattaniya heard the armed groups advancing and made the only …
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Tartous
Al-Maydan
March 2025
The attack on Al-Maydan began with artillery bombardment — a show of force intended to terrorise and disorient…
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Tartous
Hreisoun
March 10, 2025
On March 10, 2025, forces affiliated with the Jolani regime stormed Hreisoun, a small Alawite village in the B…
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Lattakia
Al-Alamein
March 2025
A massacre unfolded over two consecutive days in the village of Al-Alamein in the southern Hama countryside, n…
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Lattakia
Bustan al-Basha & Sonobar
March 2025
Reports confirmed that HTS militants took victims from the areas of Bustan al-Basha and Sonobar and buried the…
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Lattakia
Al-Bustan
March 2025
The village of Al-Bustan lies in the Masyaf countryside of Hama, well inland from the coast that drew most int…
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Lattakia
Batisa
March 2025
After midnight, when the village of Batisa in the western Homs countryside was asleep, gangs operating under t…
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Lattakia
Aseila
March 2025
In the village of Aseila in the Hama countryside, an unarmed Alawite civilian man was summarily executed. He c…
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Lattakia
Al-Tuweim
March 2025
The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organisation carried out a massacre in Al-Tuweim, a village in the western Hama count…
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Lattakia
Salhab
March 7, 2025
On March 7, 2025, armed factions entered Salhab in the western Hama countryside as part of the broader offensi…
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Tartous
Barmaya
March 2025
In Barmaya, a village in the Tartous countryside, HTS militants killed unarmed Alawite civilians. What followe…
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Lattakia
Al-Ramela
March 2025
A video emerges from Al-Ramela, a village in the Jableh countryside. The man holding the camera is walking. Hi…
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Tartous
Al-Qadmus
March 2025
Armed factions entered Al-Qadmus as part of the coordinated offensive that swept through Tartous governorate i…
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Tartous
Hammam Wasel
March 9, 2025
On March 9, 2025, military groups raided Hammam Wasel, a village known for its natural setting in the Tartous …
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Rights Record
Human Rights Articles on the Coastal Massacres
March 12, 2025
Amnesty International: Urgent investigation into Baniyas executions
Amnesty International has called for an immediate and independent international investigation into the summary executions of over 100 civilians in the coastal city of Baniyas. Witnesses described armed groups raiding homes and martyring residents based on their religious identity. "The international community cannot remain silent while such atrocities are being committed," said the regional director.
March 12, 2025
Source: Amnesty International
March 17, 2025
Rights Reports: Documenting 1,557 Civilian Martyrs in the Coast
Human rights monitoring groups have released a detailed report documenting the martyrdom of 1,557 civilians in the Tartous and Lattakia governorates between March 6 and March 17, 2025. The report highlights systematic targeting of towns like Jableh, Al-Mukhtariya, and Qardaha, noting that the vast majority of martyrs were unarmed civilians executed in their homes or while attempting to flee.
March 17, 2025
Source: Rights Watch Group
March 20, 2025
Human Rights Watch: Sectarian Cleansing in the Coastal Mountains
A new report by Human Rights Watch warns of "sectarian cleansing" patterns in the coastal mountain regions. The report documents the systematic displacement and martyrdom of Alawite families in villages around Lattakia and Tartous. HRW interviewed over 50 survivors who provided harrowing accounts of organized attacks on civilian populations.
March 20, 2025
Source: Human Rights Watch
March 25, 2025
UN Commission of Inquiry: Reports of Massacres are Credible
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry stated that reports of massacres in the coastal regions are credible and constitute potential crimes against humanity. The commission urged for humanitarian access to the affected areas and the protection of vulnerable minority populations being targeted in the recent wave of martyrs and violence.
March 25, 2025
Source: United Nations