The Syrian Ministry of Defense says it ended the military operation in the Western coastal region in the country, after the day of violence in which hundreds of people were killed.
Security forces “neutralized the” loyalty of former President Bashar Al-Assad in several cities in Latakia and Tartous provinces and “Ubacule the way to return to normal,” said the Ministry spokesman.
Tracking group says more than 1,400 people have been killed on Thursday, including 973 civilians.
The filled people loyal to the Sunni Government led by the Islamist were accused of spending revenge on murder against members of the Alavita minority sects after a deadly ambush in the security patrol.
The temporary president, Ahmed al-Shara, said he would set up an independent committee to investigate the killings and insisted that the perpetrators be responsible.
Violence has been the worst in Syria since Sharaa led an offensive of lightning of the rebels who, in December, was enforced by Assad, ending the 13 years of devastating civil war in which more than 600,000 people were killed, and 12 million others were forced to escape from his homes.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense Hassan Abdul Ghani published on the X that the security operation in Latakia and Tartous ended after “achieving all of these goals”.
“Our forces counteract the security stations and the remains of a former regime from the city of Al-Mukhtareyah, the city of Al-Mazairaa, the areas of Al-Zobar, and other locations in the Latakia province, as well as Town Dalia, Town, Tanita, and Qadmous in the province,” opponent’s provinces, “executive projects.
He also said that public institutions in the region could now continue their work, adding: “We are preparing to return a normal life and work to strengthen safety and stability.”
Abdul Ghani has promised that he will also “give security forces to the investigating committee a full opportunity to discover the circumstances of these incidents, check the facts and delivery of justice to the oppressed.”
The government has launched surgery in Latakia Province in response to a growing rebellion by Assad’s loyalist in recent weeks. The region is the heart of the Alavita sect, to which many political and military elites of the former regime belonged.
On Thursday, attackers in Jableh seated security staff as they tried to arrest the desired official Assad regime. At least 13 officers were allegedly killed.
Security forces responded by sending reinforcements to the region, joined by armed supporters of the Government. Over the next four days, many Alawite cities and villages broke into many days, where residents said they had taken the revenge of murder and looting.
A widely divided video showed bodies at least two dozen men in civilian clothing, accumulated in the courtyard of the house, in al-Mukhtareyah. Otherwise, the bills of fighters seeking members of Alavite appeared and killed whole families on the spot.
Hiba, Alavite’s wife in Baniyas, told the BBC that Chechen fighters loyal to the Government 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 off the shelves.”
“We were waiting for our turn. We didn’t know when to come. We saw death, we saw people die in front of us, and now all our friends, our neighbors, left,” she added. “They killed innocent people in cold blood that had nothing to do with all of that.”
A Alawita man whose family lives in Baniyas said in a voice message that relatives had abducted from his house attackers from Shara’s Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), who returned the door to the door looking for Alawites.
“His mother was wrong to open the door when she did so. HTS member shot between her legs … so she screamed,” he said. “Her son … he ran to see what happened to her. When they [saw] him, they took him with them and disappeared. And they didn’t come back. “
He also said that the residents of Baniyas Alawita were still hiding in their homes on Monday morning, because they were too afraid to go outside to see if it was safe.
The bodies of the killed were buried in a mass grave near the shrine on the outskirts of the city, while those who were abducted had not yet returned, he added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a control group based in the UK, reported that more than 1,450 people were killed in Latakia provinces, Tartous, Ham and Homs.
They included 973 civilians, which he said they died as a result of “murders, field executions and ethnic cleansing operations” by safety staff or management fighters, as well as 231 security staff and 250 Pro-Assad fighters.
Security sources also told the Reuters news agency that 300 security staff had been killed.
BBC could not independently check numerous deaths.
Sana State News Agency said that a mass grave was found on Sunday, which contains the Bodies of the Safety Staff in the Hometown of Qardah of the former President. The TV based in Turkey, quoted residents as they said that the Loyaltists of Assad buried the police killed in recent fights there.
The UN Chief for Human Rights Volker Türk said his office received “extremely disturbing reports of whole families, including women, children and combat fighters, killed.”
“There are reports on concise executions on the sectasal basis of unidentified perpetrators, by members of the government security forces, as well as elements related to the former government,” he added.
He requested rapid actions of temporary Syrian authorities to protect civilians and hold responsible for killings and other violations to be held.
