(6 Mar 2025)
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Damascus – 6 March 2025
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1. Various of armed security force personnel standing on the streets
2. Various of armed security force personnel on the back of a vehicle
3. Traffic
STORYLINE:
Security forces deployed in the Syrian capital Damascus and other major cities on Thursday night after gunmen ambushed a Syrian police patrol in a coastal town Thursday, leaving at least 13 security members dead and many others wounded, a monitoring group and a local official said.
The attack came amid tensions in Syria’s coastal region between former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect and members of Islamic groups.
Assad was overthrown in early December in an offensive of insurgent groups led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the ambush in the town of Jableh, near the city of Latakia, killed at least 16 people.
Rami Abdurrahman, head of the monitoring group, said the gunmen who ambushed the police force are Alawites.
A local official in Damascus told The Associated Press that 13 members of the General Security directorate were killed in the ambush.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release security information to the media.
Conflicting casualty figures are not uncommon in the immediate aftermath of attacks in Syria’s 13-year conflict, that has killed half a million people.
The pan Arab Al-Jazeera TV broadcaster said its cameraman Riad al-Hussein was wounded while covering the clashes.
The SANA state-news agency reported that large reinforcements were being sent to the coastal region to get the situation under control.
The Syrian Observatory said helicopter gunships took part in attacking Alawite gunmen in Jableh and nearby areas.
It added that fighters loyal to former Syrian Army Gen. Suheil al-Hassan, also known as Tiger, took part in the attacks against security forces.
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