For today, links to four reports: from Middle East Eye, Reuters, the Associated Press, and Middle East Monitor; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE, YEMEN and GAZA entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  SYRIA 4-10-25 is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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One month on, killings persist in Syria’s Alawi heartlands. From Middle East Eye. LATAKIA, Syria — In the weeks following the worst sectarian violence since the fall of Bashar al-Assad — unrest the government has said it is trying to contain — locals of Syria’s northwestern coast continue to report killings, abductions, and raids targeting the Alawi community. Twenty eyewitnesses and relatives of victims confirmed that . . . READ MORE . . .

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Syria’s Sharaa grants three-month extension to committee probing coastal killings. From Reuters. DAMASCUS — Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings of Alawites on Syria’s coast last month, the deadliest episode of sectarian violence since Sunni Islamist rebels seized power. In early March hundreds of Alawites were killed . . . READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from AP. 

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Syria rejects Israel’s ‘theft’ of its water resources, UNSC hears. From Middle East Monitor. Syria voiced its rejection of Israel’s interference in its internal affairs and its attempts to “steal” Syrian water resources, Anadolu reported, citing a speech Syria’s representative delivered Thursday to the United Nations in the Security Council. READ MORE . . .

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