{"id":19484,"date":"2025-06-27T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=19484"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:10:03","slug":"wave-of-abductions-targets-alawite-women-in-syria-after-assads-fall-reuters-investigation-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/06\/27\/wave-of-abductions-targets-alawite-women-in-syria-after-assads-fall-reuters-investigation-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave of Abductions Targets Alawite Women in Syria After Assad&#8217;s Fall, Reuters Investigation Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\"><em><strong>Watan<\/strong><\/em>-\u201cDon\u2019t wait for her\u2026 she\u2019s not coming back.\u201d This chilling WhatsApp message was received by the family of a woman named Abeer on May 21, hours after she vanished from the streets of Safita, Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\" data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"1074\">Her kidnapper\u2014and later a self-proclaimed intermediary\u2014threatened she would be killed or sold into trafficking unless her family paid a $15,000 ransom. Abeer herself made a brief call days later, using the kidnapper\u2019s Iraqi-numbered phone, saying, \u201cI\u2019m not in Syria&#8230; everything around me is strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-9\" data-start=\"1076\" data-end=\"1181\">Reuters reviewed 12 messages and calls exchanged between the family, the kidnapper, and the intermediary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-10\" data-start=\"1183\" data-end=\"1508\">Abeer is one of at least 33 Alawite women and girls, aged 16 to 39, reported missing in 2025 amid Syria\u2019s post-Assad collapse. The fall of the regime in December, after a 14-year war, unleashed waves of anti-Alawite violence, with armed factions reportedly attacking coastal Alawite areas in March, leaving hundreds dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-11\" data-start=\"1510\" data-end=\"1726\">Since then, social media has been flooded with videos and pleas from desperate families. According to Reuters\u2019 review, nearly all new cases involve Alawite women, with no known cases involving women from other sects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-12\" data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1881\">The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria confirmed it is investigating these disappearances, planning to report findings to the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13954\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13954 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syri-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Syrian civilian deaths\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syri-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syri-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syri-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syri-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syri.jpg 1155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since then, social media has been flooded with videos and pleas from desperate families. According to Reuters\u2019 review, nearly all new cases involve Alawite women, with no known cases involving women from other sects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 class=\"ai-optimize-13\" data-start=\"1888\" data-end=\"1923\">Ransoms, Silence, and Fear<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-14\" data-start=\"1925\" data-end=\"2143\">Abeer\u2019s family borrowed money from friends and neighbors, sending $15,000 through 30 transfers to three accounts in Izmir, Turkey. After the last transfer on May 28, the kidnapper disappeared. Her fate remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\" data-start=\"2145\" data-end=\"2184\">Out of 16 families Reuters interviewed:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"2185\" data-end=\"2376\">\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-16\" data-start=\"2185\" data-end=\"2247\">\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-17\" data-start=\"2187\" data-end=\"2247\">7 received ransom demands ranging from $1,500 to $100,000.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-18\" data-start=\"2248\" data-end=\"2302\">\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-19\" data-start=\"2250\" data-end=\"2302\">3 were told their relatives had been moved abroad.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-20\" data-start=\"2303\" data-end=\"2329\">\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-21\" data-start=\"2305\" data-end=\"2329\">8 girls were under 18.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-22\" data-start=\"2330\" data-end=\"2376\">\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-23\" data-start=\"2332\" data-end=\"2376\">9 families still have no information at all.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-24\" data-start=\"2378\" data-end=\"2601\">The abductions occurred mainly in Tartus, Latakia, and Hama, regions with significant Alawite populations. Nearly half of the missing women have returned, but none agreed to speak publicly\u2014most citing security concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-25\" data-start=\"2603\" data-end=\"2848\">Most families said police dismissed their cases or failed to investigate. Syrian officials declined comment, while local authorities downplayed the issue, calling many disappearances \u201cfamily disputes\u201d or runaway brides\u2014without offering evidence.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"ai-optimize-26\" data-start=\"2855\" data-end=\"2886\">A Pattern of Targeting<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-27\" data-start=\"2888\" data-end=\"3062\">Human rights activist Yamen Hussein said the disappearances spiked after the March violence and appear to target Alawites exclusively. Some girls now skip school out of fear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-28\" data-start=\"3064\" data-end=\"3244\">\u201cTargeting women from the defeated group is a form of humiliation,\u201d he said, recalling similar tactics used by both Assad&#8217;s regime and opposition factions during earlier war years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-29\" data-start=\"3246\" data-end=\"3434\">The youngest victim is 17-year-old Zainab, who vanished on her way to school in February. Her suspected abductor warned the family not to post her photo or \u201cshe\u2019ll be sent back in pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-30\" data-start=\"3436\" data-end=\"3623\">Some returned women described trauma, drugging, and ransom negotiations. Others reappeared and denied being kidnapped, though family members insist they were forced to lie under pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-31\" data-start=\"3625\" data-end=\"3816\">One 16-year-old girl who appeared in a video claimed she fled willingly to marry a Sunni man. Her family said she was abducted and forced into marriage. Reuters could not verify either claim.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14333\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14333 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/paris55.jpg\" alt=\"Alawite massacre\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/paris55.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/paris55-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/paris55-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syria sectarian violence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 class=\"ai-optimize-32\" data-start=\"3823\" data-end=\"3857\">Echoes of ISIS Atrocities<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-33\" data-start=\"3859\" data-end=\"4135\">Several families fear a repeat of the Yazidi nightmare under ISIS, where thousands of women were trafficked and enslaved. With Syria\u2019s post-Assad leadership struggling to fill the vacuum, and former jihadists now in government security roles, those fears feel alarmingly real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-34\" data-start=\"4137\" data-end=\"4301\">Naghm Shadi, a 23-year-old Alawite woman, went missing earlier this month while buying milk. Her father, displaced during March\u2019s violence, waits in agony for news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-35\" data-start=\"4303\" data-end=\"4344\">\u201cYa Allah\u2026 what else can we do?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-\u201cDon\u2019t wait for her\u2026 she\u2019s not coming back.\u201d This chilling WhatsApp message was received by the family of a woman named Abeer on May 21, hours after she vanished from the streets of Safita, Syria. Her kidnapper\u2014and later a self-proclaimed intermediary\u2014threatened she would be killed or sold into trafficking unless her family paid a $15,000 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6220,6221,67],"class_list":["post-19484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alawite-women","tag-disappearances","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wave of Abductions Targets Alawite Women in Syria After Assad&#039;s Fall, Reuters Investigation Reveals - Watan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Reuters investigation reveals the disappearance of at least 33 Alawite women and girls in Syria 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