Thirteen Syrian security officers who were killed in clashes with Assad Loyalists Syria

Thirteen Syrian security officers were killed in clashes with the remains of the Assad regime in the fatal attack against the new authorities in the country since the dictator was overthrown.

Armed men grabbed control points and security officers in the coastal city of Jableh and in the landscape of the province of Latakia as part of a “intentional” attack on Thursday, as the provincial manager of Syria’s General Security Directorate Mustafa Knefati looked.

According to a resident of JaBleh, who protected in his house on Thursday evening, the fights began around 2 p.m. “It sounds like Armageddon, there are massive clashes. I can hear helicopter, artillery and even mortar, ”he said.

The new government in Syria was sporadic battles with former Assad militias, since the rebels listed by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) forced the dictator from power on December 8th.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, a total of fifteen people were killed in Deraa, southern Syria after the state armed forces tried to enter a city controlled by a pro-assadic militia, as the Syrian observatory for human rights emerged. On Wednesday, grenades were also thrown into security officers in the province of Latakia.

The new government under the direction of President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former HTS chairman, has carried out what it calls “combing” operations to catch Assad officers. Officers and soldiers at low levels were offered mercy after giving their weapons to the state, but everyone who is involved in war crimes is suspended.

The Assad regime was based on a network of militias that are loyal to the local Strongmen to enforce its grip over the country during the 14-year civil war of Syria. The decentralized nature of these militias has made it difficult for the new rulers of Syria to completely reduce the military forces of the former regime. Instead, only many groups were driven underground.

The security forces were attacked on Thursday by groups who attacked Suhail al-Hassan, a notorious Syrian Army officer who commanded the elite department “Tiger Forces”, in accordance with the state news service of the country, which had ordered the elite “Tiger Forces”.

Security officers also arrested Major Ibrahim Huwaija, the former head of Air Force Intelligence Branch, who was accused of carrying out the murder of the Lebanese politician Kamal Jumblatt in 1977.