The acting president of Syria, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, urged the forces still loyal to the leader ousted Bashar al-Assad to link their weapons, while the rights monitors bring in civilians among hundreds of people killed in clashes.
Friday evening, the statements occurred after Hasan Abdel-Ghani, spokesperson for the Syrian Ministry of Defense, told Al Jazeera that the loyal to Al-Assad fighters had attacked the security forces in several places in latakia and acid governors on Thursday. Kill “a number of security forces” in well -planned operations.
The region houses the minority sect of Alawite to which the al-Assad family belongs.
In a speech broadcast on Telegram, Al-Sharaa said that the Alawite sect had made an “unforgivable error” while he called for aligned forces aligned by the government not to “exaggerate in their response”.
“The response came and you could not resist it,” he said. “Put your weapons and abandon before it is too late.”
On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said that more than 340 people, including civilians, had been killed in fights along the west coast, which is strongly populated by members of the Allaouite minority. In the middle of the fighting in progress, civilians and their families entered the Russian base of Khmeimim in the Latakia campaign to take refuge.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said he was “deeply alarmed” by fighting.
“Although the situation remains fluid and we always determine the specific facts, there is clearly an immediate need for restraint of all parties and full respect for the protection of civilians in accordance with international law,” Pedersen said in a statement.
“All parties should refrain from actions that could still ignite tensions, increase conflicts, exacerbate the suffering of affected communities, destabilize Syria and compromise a credible and inclusive political transition.”
Fight in progress
Omar Al Hajj of Al Jazeera, reporting from the city of Tartous, said on Friday that the authorities had lost control in several districts after the “rebellions”, but “reinforcements … of different provinces and districts” had carried out a “huge security operation” in Tartous, Latakia and Banias.
Latakia Governat said on Saturday, other security forces had arrived at the coastal city of Jableh, where the aligned forces aligned by Al-Assad targeted the security patrols and the control points on Thursday. A video published on Telegram showed a convoy arriving in the city of Qardaha.
Meanwhile, Sana’s state news agency said that a convoy of the General Security Administration had entered the coastal city of Baniyas in Tartous.
Report of the capital Damascus, the resulture of Al Jazeera Serdar said that if the security officials said that the fighting had calmed down in certain cities, the fighting continues in more farflung regions.
He added that a “tragedy” increased due to the number of civilian deaths on both sides.
“Hundreds of people have been killed and the majority of them are civilians,” added Serdar.
‘Snowbrouning for a while’
The attack on Syrian forces by the faithful to the former president kidnapped Shakes Shakes of Al-Sharaa to consolidate control in the midst of American sanctions and American security challenges, including the presence of Israeli troops in the Southwest.
But Alawite said their communities in rural homs and lataquions had been subjected to violence and attacks after the overthrow of al-Assad. While Al-Sharaa is committed to directing the country inclusive, there was no meeting between him and the senior Alaounite personalities, unlike other minority groups.
Addressing Al Jazeera, Rob Geist Pinfold, lecturer in international security at King’s College in London, said that the current situation “was unfortunately upset for some time”. This included the announcement of the presence of the Syrian popular resistance in Syria.
He described the group as “mainly of former special forces of the Assad regime”.
“It was actually quite impressive that the new government under Ahmed Al-Sharaa managed to keep a cover on things so far-but their bluff has been very well called,” he said.
However, a lack of “reconciliation” for the countless abuses committed by various groups during the reign of al-Assad has not yet been discussed, which has led certain groups to take matters into hand.
“(The interim government) must now answer, they must answer decisively, they must show that they are the officials, but they must also do it without alienating the Alawites.”
