Syria’s new rebel-led authorities say 14 inside ministry personnel have been killed and 10 injured in an “ambush” by forces loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad within the west of the nation.
They are saying the preventing came about close to the Mediterranean port of Tartous on Tuesday.
Reviews say the safety forces had been ambushed as they tried to arrest a former officer in connection to his function on the infamous Saydnaya jail, near the capital Damascus.
Simply over two weeks in the past, Assad’s presidency fell to insurgent forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) faction.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) mentioned three militants had been additionally killed within the clashes.
The SOHR added that the safety forces later introduced in reinforcements.
In a separate growth, the Syrian authorities imposed an in a single day curfew within the central metropolis of Homs, state media reported.
Reviews say this adopted unrest after a video purportedly exhibiting an assault on an Alawite shrine.
Syria’s inside ministry mentioned it was an previous video, courting again to the insurgent offensive on Aleppo in late November, and the violence was carried out by unknown teams.
The SOHR mentioned one demonstrator was killed and 5 wounded in Homs.
Demonstrations had been additionally reported in areas together with the cities of Tartous and Latakia, and Assad’s hometown of Qardaha.
Alawites are the minority sect from which the Assad household originates, and to which lots of the former regime’s political and navy elite belonged.
The HTS-led lightning offensive that began from Syria’s north-east and unfold everywhere in the nation ended the Assad household’s greater than 50-year-rule.
Assad and his household had been pressured to flee to Russia.
HTS has since promised to guard the rights and freedoms of many non secular and ethnic minorities in Syria.
HTS is designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, the US, the EU, the UK and others.
On Tuesday, protests broke out within the nation over the burning of a Christmas tree, prompting recent requires the brand new authorities to guard minorities.
