Syrian Coast Monitor

🚨🚨🇸🇾 Al-Julani Jihadist Regime Abducts Underage Alawite Girl, Suspected Attempt to Pressure Families to Leave the Russian Base On April 14, members of Al-Julani jihadist militants, reportedly from Idlib, kidnapped 17-year-old Reem Hassan from inside Hmeimim Airport in Latakia. The abduction is suspected to be part of an effort to intimidate and pressure Alawite families into leaving the Russian military base area. 📌 From the girl’s father: •Around 3:00 PM, we lost track of her. We searched the airport but couldn’t find her, so we went to General Security. They told us she had already exited. •We called her phone, but there was no answer. Instead, we received texts saying, “I’m fine, don’t worry, I’m close by.” •Her phone was clearly with the kidnappers, who kept rejecting our calls and sending misleading messages. •After searching the area for two hours with no results, Reem finally called us from the nearby village of Benjaro. •We coordinated with Sheikh Yarub (Abu al-Hakam), and General Security allowed us to go retrieve her. They even gave us weapons for protection! And said you need because it's dark! . We found her and brought her home safely. 📌 From Reem: •A man approached me inside the airport and said, “Either you leave with us quietly, or we’ll kill your younger brother, if not now then we will kill him later.” •I agreed to go with them out of fear. He told me to smile and act natural as we passed General Security. •They took me to a place called Batra, told me to unlock my phone, then blindfolded me and put me in a car. •The kidnappers spoke in a dialect that didn’t sound local at all, more like Bedouin and from Idlib. •After receiving a phone call, they suddenly decided to let me go and told me to contact my family. •They warned me not to say I had been kidnapped, threatening to return if I caused a scene. •I found help near a local Alawite shrine and was eventually able to call my father. 🔴It is widely believed that this kidnapping was not random, but a calculated move to create fear and pressure Alawite families to withdraw from areas near the Russian military presence. The suspicious timing of the call telling the kidnappers to release Reem, right after her family talked to same Genral Security militants standing outside the entrance and armed them to pretend they care about their safety, points to coordination between the abductors and militants within the jihadist-run General Security apparatus..