Syria says that Operation against Asad’s loyalists after fatal violence

The Syrian Ministry of Defense says it has completed a military operation in the western coastal region of the country, killing hundreds of people after the days of violence.

A spokesman for the ministry said that security forces had “neutralized” the loyalists of former President Bashar al-Assad in many towns of Latakia and sharp provinces and “paving the way to return normally for life”, said the ministry spokesman.

A monitoring group says that more than 1,400 people have been killed since Thursday, including 973 citizens.

The loyal gunmen, loyal gunmen towards the Sunni Islamic government, have been accused of killing members of the minority Alvite sect of Asad after a deadly ambush on a security patrol.

Interim Chairman, Ahmed al-Shara, has said that he will establish an independent committee to investigate the killings and insist that the culprits would be held accountable.

Violence is the worst in Syria as Shara aggressively inspired the power rebel to uproot Asad in December, abolishing the 13 -year disastrous civil war, forcing over 600,000 people to kill and 12 million others were forced to flee their homes.

Defense Ministry spokesman Hasan Abdul Ghani announced on X that “safety operations in Latakia and Tartus were finished after” achieving all specified objectives “.

“Our forces have neutralized the security cells and remains of the former regime from the city of Al-Mukkatereh, the Al-Mazaira city, the area of ​​Al-Zobar, and other places in Latakia province as well as the porridge Town, Tanita Town, and Kadus in Tartas provinces, which trembled the area, which trembled the area.

He also said that public institutions in the region were now able to resume their work, saying: “We are working to the return and security and stability of normal life.”

Abdul Ghani promised that the security force would “give the inquiry committee a full opportunity to highlight the circumstances of these incidents, verify the facts and give justice to the oppressed”.

The government started the operation in Latakia province in response to the growing rebellion by Asad’s loyalists in recent weeks. The region is the heart region of the Alvite sect, with many political and military elite classes of the former rule.

On Thursday, security personnel were ambushed by gunmen in Jableh city as they tried to arrest a wanted Assad Governance Officer. At least 13 officers were reportedly killed.

Security forces responded by sending reinforcement in the region, which were involved in the government’s armed supporters. Over the next four days, he exploded several alvite towns and villages, where the residents said they committed revenge killings and looting.

A widely shared video featured the bodies of at least two dozen men in a civil clothing of a house in Al-Mukkatereh. In other places, accounts were inaugurated in fighters’ accounts, searching for Alvite members and killing the entire family on the spot.

Hiba, an all -round woman in Balis, told the BBC that Chechen fighters had attacked their neighborhoods loyal to the government.

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

“We were waiting for our turn. We did not know when it would come. We saw the death, we saw that people are dying in front of us and now all our friends, our neighbors, have gone,” he said. “He killed innocent people in cold blood, who had nothing to do with any of it.”

One apart from the person whose family lives in Balis, said in a voice message that a relative was abducted from his house by a gunman’s Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen, who moved to the door in search of alvites.

“His mother made a mistake when he opened the door. An HTS member opened fire between his feet … then he shouted,” he said. “His son … ran away to see what happened to him. When he (saw) he saw him, he took him with him and disappeared. And he did not return.”

He also said that the residents of Bania’s Alvite neighborhood were still hiding in their homes on Monday morning as they were afraid to enter out to see if it was safe.

The bodies of those killed were buried in a collective tomb near a temple on the outskirts of the city, while those who were abducted were not yet returned, they said.

The UK-based monitoring group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported that more than 1,450 people have been killed in Latakia, Tartus, Hama and Homes Provinces.

These consisted of 973 citizens, who said that the security personnel or pro -government fighters resulted in “killings, field execution and ethnic cleaning operations”, as well as 231 security personnel and 250 supporters as a result of Assad fighters.

Security sources also told the Reuters News Agency that 300 security personnel were killed.

The BBC has been unable to verify the toll of death independently.

State news agency Sana said that a collective tomb with the bodies of security personnel was found on Sunday in the former President’s hometown Karda. Turkish -based Syria TV, citing residents, said that Asad’s loyalists had recently buried the death of the police in the fight.

United Nations Human Rights Head Volcker Turk said his office “received extremely disturbing reports from the entire families, including women, children and horsept fighters,”.

He said, “There are reports of the execution of a sect by unknown criminals by the members of the security forces of the caretaker officers, as well as by unknown criminals by elements associated with the former government,” he said.

He demanded Swift action by interim authorities in Syrian to protect citizens and catch those responsible for killings and other violations.