{"id":127666,"date":"2025-07-26T06:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=127666"},"modified":"2025-07-26T06:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:47:53","slug":"alawite-leader-rejects-syrian-government-report-on-coastal-massacres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/127666\/","title":{"rendered":"Alawite leader rejects Syrian government report on coastal massacres\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Head of the Supreme Alawite Islamic Council in Syria and the Diaspora, Ghazal Ghazal, declared on Friday evening that the council does not recognize the findings of the National Commission for Investigation and Fact-Finding regarding the recent massacres in Syria\u2019s coastal regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe do not recognize a commission formed to distort and conceal the truth,&#8221; Ghazal said in a video statement. &#8220;We rejected it at its inception and continue to reject it now. 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