The Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah condemned the recent terrorist attack on Alawite worshippers —an ethnoreligious Shia Muslim group associated with the ousted president Bashar al-Assad— at the Imam Ali mosque in Syria’s Homs province.
Preliminary figures provided by the Syrian Ministry of Health indicate at least eight people were killed and eighteen others wounded.
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Hours later, the extremist group Saraya Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement released on Friday itself.
The events unfolded in a nation bled dry by over a decade of civil war, which in the past year has endured brutal massacres perpetrated by troops of the Government led by Ahmed al Sharaa, the leader of the armed group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) that spearheaded the coup d’etat against al-Assad.
Hezbollah’s statement underscores that the perpetrators “reject religious and intellectual diversity and promote a discourse of hatred, exclusion, and rejection.”
Ansar al Sunnah claims responsibility for the terror attack on the Mosque in Homs which killed 12 people and wounded 30 others.
Ansar al Sunnah is a subgroup of Jolani Hayat Tahrir al Sham – the group split amicable from HTS 10 months ago stating that HTS which by then formed… pic.twitter.com/8r4Q8FpuDD
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It further asserts that the perpetrators, through their actions, are working in service of U.S. and Israeli interests, which aim to fragment the Syrian Arab Republic.
Similarly, they expressed their condolences to the families of the deceased and wished a speedy recovery to the injured, as well as “stability, progress, and prosperity” for the Syrian people.
Iran, member of the Axis of Resistance, also condemned the crime. In a statement from Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei, it asserted that foreign interventions have contributed to the expansion of terrorism, in reference to the United States and Israel.
For its part, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs framed the attack as part of extremist remnants of the Islamic State.
Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, a Syria-based analyst and researcher, said Saraya Ansar al-Sunna could be “a pro-IS splinter originating primarily from defectors from HTS and other factions but currently operating independently of IS.”
The top #Alawite cleric warns of collapse and urges a “human flood” to demand federalism and confront identity-based killings in #Syria.https://t.co/6eK8wrlpzd
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