Syrian safety reinforcements deploy in Latakia, Syria, on Friday.
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DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new authorities despatched in safety reinforcements and imposed curfews on a key coastal space after among the greatest clashes because the fall of the regime with fighters loyal to the deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The state-run Syrian Arab Information Company mentioned the federal government imposed a curfew on the port cities of Latakia and Tartous after the clashes, warning individuals to not depart their properties. It mentioned the interim authorities despatched in safety reinforcements from different elements of the nation to revive order.
“As a part of a pre-planned and deliberate assault, a number of teams of Assad militia remnants attacked our factors and checkpoints, and focused a lot of our patrols,” SANA quoted Lt. Col. Mustafa Knefati, the general public safety director in Latakia, as saying. He mentioned, with out specifying numbers, that “many” of the federal government forces had been killed or wounded within the clashes close to the coastal city of Jableh.
Turkish-based Syria TV, allied with the Syrian authorities, mentioned at the least 13 authorities safety personnel had been killed in an ambush close to Jableh on Thursday. The interim authorities rushed in safety personnel from Idlib, the place the primary armed group backing the brand new Syrian authorities is predicated, and from different cities into the coastal area.
Alawite leaders say their neighborhood round Latakia and Tartous in addition to close to Homs, Syria’s third-biggest metropolis, have been focused because the Assad regime was toppled in December. Assad was from the Alawite neighborhood, an offshoot of Shia Islam.
In December, a coalition of opposition fighters led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over cities and ultimately Damascus as regime forces retreated.
Syrian activists mentioned Thursday’s clashes with authorities forces had been adopted by killings of Alawite males within the coastal area on Friday.
Activists Friday circulated video exhibiting about 20 our bodies mendacity by the aspect of the street as proof of what they known as extrajudicial killings. The killings couldn’t be independently verified. Reuters information company mentioned it had verified the situation of the video as al-Mukhtareyah and the timing of the video as taken throughout the final two months.
SANA cited an unnamed safety supply as saying killings there have been particular person actions taken after individuals streamed into the area after assaults on authorities fighters. It quoted the safety supply as saying the federal government was working to cease these killings.
A U.Ok.-based human rights monitoring company mentioned males locally had been killed execution fashion after extra fighters affiliated with the brand new authorities flooded into the coastal area in response to the clashes.
There was no official remark from the federal government or the inside ministry.
