đŸ”” Syria Massacre

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Citizen Frank
March 08, 2025

Good morning. It’s Saturday, March 8.

 

A Syria war monitor reported on Saturday that over 530 civilians from the Alawite minority had been killed in recent days by security forces and their allies, as authorities clash with militants loyal to the former government of Bashar al-Assad.

Restoring security has been one of the most complex tasks for Syria’s new authorities, installed after Islamist-led forces ousted Assad — himself an Alawite — in a lightning offensive in December.

They are now facing their fiercest attacks yet by members of the Assad clan’s Alawite minority and have launched a major counter-operation in the ethnic group’s Mediterranean heartland.

Three suspects are still at large after 12 people were injured in a shooting at a pub in Toronto, police in the Canadian city say.

The shooting took place at 22:39 on Friday local time (03:39 GMT Saturday) near Scarborough city centre in eastern Toronto.

Authorities said six people suffered bullet wounds and others were hurt by flying or broken glass. The injuries were not life-threatening, they said.

One Newark police officer was killed and another is “fighting for his life” in critical condition after a shootout with a 14-year-old suspect Friday evening, according to reports.

Shots rang out around 6:30 p.m. near a White Castle and McDonald’s where the teen was hanging out with friends, ABC7 reported, citing the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

The young gunman allegedly fired a total of 29 shots at officers, sources told PIX11.

Police in Oregon are working with the FBI after gunshots were discovered at a Tesla dealership Thursday morning in the latest instance of vandalism against the carmaker.

Investigators think “at least seven shots were fired” at the building, resulting in hitting three cars total and a computer monitor, according to the Tigard Police Department, located just south of Portland.

Photos of the damage show shattered glass at the front of the building, a wall with bullet holes, as well as a damaged Cybertruck and another vehicle with a broken windshield.

Pro-Palestinian protesters have vandalized parts of U.S. President Donald Trump’s golf course in Scotland in response to his proposal for the reconstruction of Gaza.

Red paint was daubed on the floor and buildings of the Trump Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, and “Gaza is not for sale” was painted across the lawn along with insults directed at the president.

A war between Israel and Hamas—which began on October 7, 2023, with the militant group’s attack on southern Israel—has reduced most of Gaza to rubble.

House Democratic leadership is opposing Republicans‘ plans to avoid a government shutdown next week, with leaders calling the proposal “not acceptable.”

Government funding expires on March 14. GOP leaders are preparing to put a continuing resolution, or CR, up for a vote on Tuesday that will freeze current spending levels until the end of the fiscal 2025 on Sept. 30.

With bipartisan congressional appropriators so far unable to come to an agreement on a topline number for a bigger funding package, the CR is viewed as a temporary fix to keep government operations running past the deadline.

Donald Trump is considering pulling US troops from Germany and redeploying them to Eastern Europe, The Telegraph has reported.

Mr Trump is weighing up withdrawing some 35,000 active personnel out of Germany in a move that would further sour US-Europe relations.

The US president, who has repeatedly warned that Europe must commit more to its defensive capabilities, is becoming increasingly frustrated that the continent is “pushing for war”, sources close to the administration said.

President Donald Trump announced on Friday night that he had added Fox News hosts Maria Bartiromo and Laura Ingraham to the board of trustees at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The announcement came weeks after Trump fired much of the venue’s board and appointed himself chair.

In a post from his Truth Social account, Trump said Bartiromo and Ingraham would be the last people appointed to the center’s board of trustees.

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