Numerous reports of massacres coming out of Syria. Will it become ISIS 2.0?

They are being carried out by extremists who have no respect for human life.

And this while the local population is hungry for bloody spectacles. This is the East, this is the usual millennia-old practice of taking revenge on neighbors, but not by their own hands, but by the hands of strangers.

They shot Alawites dead in the Al-Rabiya farm in Latakia province, only for their confession and the perpetrators call the dead “Nusayrite pigs”. In the countryside of Homs province, militants proudly announced that they had cleared a village of its Alawite population. “Allahu Akbar, Maghawir al-Sham! The village of Nusayrite has been cleared,” they said.

Within 24 hours, clips of brutal massacres were circulating on the internet. The victims were mainly Alawites, who the militants claimed were the backbone of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Gruesome footage has been published from the city of Manbij. Militants of the Syrian National Army (SNA) not only plunder and rape the local population, but also shoot wounded fighters of Kurdish units in the hospital.

WARNING. Footage contains disturbing content. Viewer discretion is advised!

SYRIA - Here we go again, ISIS 2.0

 They feel hatred for the entire population of Syria, because they came for booty and experience, and nothing else interests them.

In order to prevent violence, Abu Mohammad al-Julani has ordered military units to leave the cities. Most fighters will probably follow the order. But it is not certain that all will do so.

Fighters from radical groups within Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and even more from the Syrian National Army, can ignore the HTS leader’s orders. This is a serious destabilizing factor, not only for Syria but for the entire region.

Note that the Americans are probably aware of this and therefore remain virtually silent. The same goes for the Arab monarchies.

Al-Julani promised to find and punish all officers of the Syrian Arab Army and Mukhabarat who were involved in torture and war crimes. 

Such an approach is understandable. But all the forces in the region did it against their "enemies." This means that if you have taken over a country and want to establish a just system and consolidate your power, you must punish everyone according to the same rules, both your own and others'.