A Syrian safety supply informed Al Jazeera that 15 safety personnel had been killed in ‘numerous armed ambushes’.
Gunmen loyal to deposed Syrian chief Bashar al-Assad have killed not less than 15 safety personnel in ambushes within the coastal province of Latakia, a safety supply informed Al Jazeera.
The assaults befell on Thursday close to the city of Jableh within the Latakia countryside, a part of the coastal space which varieties the heartland of the Alawite minority sect to which the al-Assad household belongs.
A Syrian safety supply informed the Al Jazeera Arabic community that 15 safety personnel had been killed in “numerous armed ambushes”.
“The Syrian state will impose its authority on all teams exterior the regulation and won’t enable safety to be threatened,” stated the supply.
Reporting from Damascus, Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, stated tensions had been working excessive after the assaults.
“Because the fall of the Assad regime three months in the past, that is maybe one of many largest safety challenges that the brand new authorities is dealing with,” he stated.
The central authorities had despatched reinforcements consisting of “dozens and dozens of army automobiles” to town of Latakia from a number of governorates, together with Hama, Homs and Idlib, he stated.
Quickly after the assault, a video was launched by an Assad-era commander, saying {that a} resistance group known as the “coastal defend regiment” had been fashioned in opposition to the brand new authorities, stated Serdar.
The safety director of Latakia province had earlier informed the Syrian state information company SANA that safety forces had been clashing within the Latakia countryside with armed teams loyal to Assad-era particular forces commander Suhail al-Hassan.
Safety forces in Latakia introduced that the scenario was now beneath management and that a number of of the attackers had been killed, with “many extra captured”, stated Serdar. A curfew was additionally introduced within the coastal metropolis of Tartous.
Syria’s Mediterranean coastal areas have emerged as one of many major safety challenges for interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa as his authorities works to consolidate management over the nation.
