Members of the Free Syrian Army reportedly attacked the
Christian-dominated al-Duvair village in Reef on the outskirts of Homs
on Monday, where they massacred its citizens, including women and
children, before the Syrian Army interfered.
This reported attack
comes shortly after intense fighting in the city of al-Qusseir over the
weekend, in which Bashar Al-Assad’s forces inflicted heavy casualties
on the rebels.
Assad’s forces launched an offensive in April in
an effort to cut off supply lines to the rebels by taking the city and
its surrounding areas from the rebel groups that had been entrenched
there since last year. Two weeks ago, the Syrian forces reached the
center of the city
While the sources describing Monday’s massacre
are supportive of Assad, it’s possible that it occurred since the rebel
groups fighting the Assad regime are composed mainly of members of
al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda affiliated groups and have committed war crimes
and atrocities in the past.
Jabhat al-Nusra, the branch of
al-Qaeda that fought and killed American and allied troops in Iraq, have
positioned themselves in Syria and control the rebel movement.
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