Fighting continues as Syria’s president calls on Alawite to lay down arms | Conflict News

More than 250 people were reportedly killed in western Syria as Alavi loyalists clashed with security forces.

Syria’s interim president Ahmed Al-Sharaa urges Alawi minority Surrendered after fierce battles with Syrian security forces.

Syrian Defense Ministry spokesman Hasan Abdel-Ghani told Al Jazeera Friday that fighters loyal to former President Bashar al-Assad attacked security forces in multiple places in Latakia on Thursday, home to the Latakia and Alawite minorities, the Al-Assad family belonged to the “security force” and killed the “security force”. operations.

Al-Sharaa said in a speech aired on the telegram on Friday night that the Alawites had made an “unbelievable mistake”.

“Ripster has come, you can’t bear it,” he said. “Let down your weapons and surrender before it’s too late.”

According to Syrian human rights observers, more than 250 people were killed in the fight on the western coast, and members of the Alavian minority were large. During the ongoing battle, civilians and their families entered the Russian Khmeimim base in the countryside of Latakia to seek refuge.

Omar Al Hajj of Al Jazeera, Tartous City, said on Friday that authorities lost control in several communities after the “insurrection” but “reinforcements from different provinces and territories… from different provinces and territories” carried out “huge security operations”.

Syrian authorities said troops consistent with Al-Assad targeted security patrols and checkpoints in the Jableh area and surrounding rural areas before spreading Thursday.

Moussa al-Omar, a figure close to Syria’s new leadership, told Reuters news agency that thousands of combatants in the newly formed security forces were deployed to the shore and the order was mainly restored as of Friday night.

Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar said in a report in the capital Damascus that the fight continues in some parts of the country, but that the “tragedy” is growing due to losses of civilian deaths on both sides.

“The remnants of the old regime killed more than 100 security forces, including 15 civilians,” he said. “That’s why Al-Sharaa called on security forces to show the greatest restrictions and asked them to protect civilians at all costs. Now, this has become a huge problem.”

True to former President Shakes Al-Sharaa’s attacks in the ongoing U.S. sanctions and security challenges, including the presence of Israeli forces in the Southwest, removed Shakes Al-Sharaa’s efforts to consolidate control.

But the Alawians say they suffered violence and attacks in rural Homs and Latakia communities after Assad was overthrown.

Although Al-Sharaa has promised to be inclusive of the country, contrary to other minorities, there is no meeting between him and senior Alavet figures.