(10 Mar 2025)
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Jableh, Syria – 10 March 2025
1. Various of burnt car
2. Various of debris and discarded equipment at checkpoint
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sajid Allah Al-Deek, Security Official of the Coastal Region:
“We deployed in the area, from Latakia Governorate to the city of Jableh, and as you can see now, praise be to God, the highway is working. The civilians have begun returning to their homes, and the violators or those who committed these things, we have begun to arrest them. We have begun to remove them from this area so that they can be held accountable for these violations that they committed.”
4. Mid of two men walking in downtown Jableh
5. Various of food stalls in downtown Jableh
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sajid Allah Al-Deek, Security Official of the Coastal Region:
“The problem that happened when we liberated this area, the internal security apparatus spread out in the coastal area and protected the property and lives of civilians, but when the criminal remnants of the regime came, we were forced to leave this area. Now, regarding the violations, we are reducing these violations, which, God willing, are in a negative direction and will end.”
7. Various of burial
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Imad Baytar, son of civilian killed in violence:
“My father was in a taxi company and he had an order to Damascus and he went to work. And when he came back in the afternoon, he was killed. Just before sunset, he was killed at the checkpoint.”
9. Mid of Jableh hospital exterior
10. Various of damage inside hospital, doctor Alaa Hamada showing damage
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Alaa Hamada, doctor at Jableh hospital
“They abandoned us doctors in the hospital. The hallways are filled with bombs. The glass is all broken in the hospital. They went into the operating rooms and we don’t know what they did. The situation is disastrous.”
12. Various of destroyed cars
13. Various of man sweeping broken glass
STORYLINE:
Syria’s interim government announced Monday the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the 13-year civil war in December.
The Defense Ministry’s announcement comes after a surprise attack by gunmen from the Alawite community on a police patrol near the port city of Lattakia Thursday spiraled into widespread clashes across Syria’s coastal region, during which monitoring groups said hundreds of civilians were killed.
Syria’s new interim Islamist rulers are struggling to exert their authority across the country and reach political settlements with other minority communities, notably the Kurds of the northeast and the Druze in southern Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said 1,130 people were killed in the clashes, including 830 civilians. The Associated Press could not independently verify these numbers.
Though the government’s counter-offensive was able to largely contain the insurgency, footage surfaced of what appeared to be retaliatory attacks targeting the broader minority Alawite community, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose adherents live mainly in Syria’s western coastal region.
The government has announced it has taken control of the coast after days of fighting.
Life is beginning to return to normal in Syria’s coastal region, according to security official Sajid Allah Al-Deek.
"The civilians have begun returning to their homes, and the violators or those who committed these things, we have begun to arrest them," he said.
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