For today, links to six reports: from Agence France-Presse, the Cradle, Reuters, the Associated Press, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (IRAN, LEBANON, WEST BANK, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. SYRIA 3-7-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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532 Alawites killed by Syrian security forces, allies since Thursday, monitor says. From AFP. BEIRUT — A Syrian war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says security forces and allied groups killed 532 Alawite civilians over the past days, revising upwards a previous toll of 340. READ MORE . . .

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Sectarian violence sweeps Syria as western-backed security forces rampage in Alawite towns. From the Cradle. At least 147 people have been killed in Syria in the past two days, as security forces from the country’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led government carried out a series of massacres and extrajudicial executions against Alawites in the country’s coastal regions as part of . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Reuters.

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FROM MARCH 7  Clashes in Syria between government forces and Assad loyalists kill more than 200, by Bassem Mroue and Abby Sewell | AP  BEIRUT — Fighters siding with Syria’s new government stormed several villages near the country’s coast, killing dozens of men in response to recent attacks on government security forces by loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad, a war monitor said. READ MORE . . .   Click HERE for report from Reuters.

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FROM MARCH 7  Syria imposes curfew after its worst clashes since the Assad regime ouster, by Jane Arraf | NPR  DAMASCUS — Syria’s new government has sent in security reinforcements and imposed curfews on a key coastal area after some of the biggest clashes since the fall of the regime with fighters loyal to the deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. READ MORE . . .

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