A member of what is called the “General Security” in the Al-Bab area, , handed a child a Kalashnikov rifle loaded with live ammunition and allowed him to fire in the street among passersby.

‏The issue is not just documenting the incident and describing it as an “isolated case.” The real problem is that those entrusted with maintaining public security are, in reality, unqualified individuals, most of whom are sectarian criminals. Since the fall of the Assad regime, the “General Security” has carried out field executions, beatings, humiliation, looting of shops, homes, and cars, as well as sectarian insults against young men and women. And to be clear, I am referring specifically to the “General Security,” separately from the brutality of the terrorist factions of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.

‏Syria is heading toward more violence, and this is not pessimism, it is an inevitable consequence of power falling into the hands of criminals like these and sectarian figures such as Asaad Al-Shaibani, who just yesterday blamed all Alawites for Assad’s crimes.