Al-Bustan

The village of Al-Bustan lies in the Masyaf countryside of Hama, well inland from the coast that drew most international attention during the March 2025 massacres. That distance offered no protection. HTS militants reached Al-Bustan and carried out a mass execution of Alawite civilians, demonstrating that the campaign of sectarian violence extended deep into the Syrian interior wherever Alawite communities could be found. The attack on Al-Bustan is a reminder that the March 2025 massacres were not a localised eruption but a geographically expansive campaign. The pattern — HTS forces entering an Alawite village, executing civilians, leaving a community shattered — repeated itself from the Mediterranean coast to the hills of Hama with a consistency that speaks to coordination and intent. Their deaths are documented here so that the reach of the violence is understood in its full dimension, and so that no community targeted during those weeks is forgotten.