Syria’s operation against Assad’s loyalty ends after deadly violence

The Ministry of Defense in Syria says it has completed a military operation in the western coastal region of the country, after days of violence in which hundreds of people have been killed.

Security forces “neutralized” former President Bashar al-Assad’s loyalists in several cities in Latakia and Tartous Provins and have “made the way to life to return to normal,” said a spokesman for the ministry.

A monitoring group is said to have been killed by Thursday, including 973 civilians.

The Guleni, loyal to the government, led by Islamist Sunni, have been accused of committing murder of revenge against Alavita’s members of Assad’s minority after a deadly ambush for security patrol.

Temporary President Ahmed al -Sharaa said he would set up an independent committee to investigate the killings and demand that the perpetrators be held accountable.

Violence is the worst in Syria, as Sharaa led the offensive of Lightning Rebel, which dropped Assad in December, ending 13 years from the devastating civil war, which killed over 600,000 people and 12 million others were forced to escape from their homes.

Department of Defense spokesman Hasan Abdul Ghani has announced to X that the security operation in Latakia and Tartus has ended after “achieving all the purpose”.

“Our powers have neutralized the security cells and the remains of the former regime of the city of Al-Muhtarea, the city of Al Mazayra, the Al-Zobar region and other places in Latakia, as well as the city of Dalia, the city of Tanita and the cadmus in the Tiger province, resulting in the conductor of the threat of threats. The threats and secreted the area in the province, which is said in the city of Dalia, the city of Tanita, and the cadmus in a cigarette province, resulting in the conductor of the threats and secreted the area, “said in the province of Dalia, Tanita, and cadmus in a cadet provincial arising from the province.

He also said that public institutions in the region are already able to resume their work, adding: “We are preparing to return normal life and work to strengthen security and stability.”

Abdul Ghani has promised that security forces will also “give the investigating committee the full opportunity to reveal the circumstances of these incidents, to check the facts and to convey justice to the oppressed.”

In recent weeks, the government has launched the operation in Latakia province in response to the growing rebellion of Assad’s loyalty. The region is the heart of the Alaviv sect, to which many of the political and military elite of the former regime belong.

On Thursday, security officers were planted by artillerymen in the city of Jabeh as they tried to arrest the desired Assad regime officer. At least 13 officers have been reported to have been killed.

Security forces responded by sending reinforcements to the region that armed supporters of the government joined. Over the next four days, they stormed many cities and villages of Alavit, where residents said they had committed revenge and robberies.

A wide-shared video showed the bodies of at least two dozen men in civilian clothes accumulated in the yard of a house in al-Muhtarea. Elsewhere, accounts of fighters have appeared looking for Alawite members and kill entire families on the spot.

Hiba, a woman from Alavit in Banias, told the BBC that Chechen fighters loyal to the government had attacked her neighborhood.

“Our neighbors were killed, including children. They came and took everything, gold, everything … They stole all the cars in the neighborhood. They even went to the supermarket and took everything from the shelves.”

“We waited for our turn. We didn’t know when it would come. We saw death, we saw people who die before us and now all our friends, our neighbors are gone,” she added. “They killed innocent people in cold blood, who had nothing to do with anything.”

Alavit, whose family lives in Banias, said in a voice message that a relative was abducted from his home by artillery by the Islamist band Sharaa Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), who went from door to door, looking for Alavites.

“His mother made a mistake by opening the door when he did it. A member of the HTS fired between her legs … so she was screaming,” he said. “Her son … rushed to see what happened to her. When they saw him, they took him with him and disappeared. And they did not come back.”

He also said that the residents of Alavit’s neighborhoods of Banias are still hiding in their houses on Monday morning because they are afraid to get too much out to see if it is safe.

The bodies of the killed were buried in a mass grave near a sanctuary on the outskirts of the city, while those who were abducted have not yet returned, he added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Based in the UK Monitoring Group has announced that more than 1450 people have been killed in the provinces of Latakia, Tartas, Homa and Homs.

They included 973 civilians, which she said she died as a result of “killings, executions of the field and ethnic cleansing operations” by security officers or pro -government governments, as well as 231 security officers and 250 Assad fighters.

Security sources also told Reuters news agency that 300 security staff had been killed.

The BBC is not able to independently check the death taxes.

SANA State news agency said a mass grave containing the bodies of security staff was found in the hometown of former President Kardakha on Sunday. Turkey -based television in Syria cites residents that Assad’s loyalists have buried police killed in the last fighting there.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said his cabinet had received “extremely disturbing reports of whole families, including women, children and fighters killed.”

“There are reports of generalized executions on a sectarian basis by unidentified perpetrators, by members of the security forces of the care authorities, as well as by elements related to the former government,” he added.

He requested a quick action from Syria’s temporary authorities to protect civilians and hold responsible for killings and other violations to be reported.