A Syrian military operation has been completed against the allegations of the expelled president Bashar al-Assad, the Ministry of Defense said on Monday, after the heaviest fight since the former rebels took power three months ago.
The confrontations between Assad’s loyal and the new rulers of the country in the former president’s coastal heart have killed more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, according to a war monitoring group.
Violence has increased concerns about the direction of Syria, where ancient rebels under Ahmed al-Sharaa and their group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham try to unify a divided country while navigating the participation of powerful neighbors.
Since Assad’s overthrow, groups backed by Turk have faced kurdish forces that control much of Syria’s northeast. Israel has hit the military sites separately in Syria and is pressing the United States to keep Syria weak, according to sources. Reuters.
Hassan Abdul Ghany, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, said in a statement on X that public institutions could now resume their work and provide services.
“We are raising the way for life to return to normal and the consolidation of safety and stability,” said Abdul Ghany.
He added that the plans existed to continue fighting the remains of the old government and eliminate any future threat.
Sharaa promised to hunt the perpetrators of the violent clashes on Sunday and said he would argue to account for anyone to exceed the authority of the new rulers.
The Al-Sharaa office also said that an independent committee was forming to investigate the confrontations and murders made by both parties.
Abdul Ghany added that security forces would cooperate with the Investigation Committee, offering total access to discover the circumstances of the events, verify the facts and guarantee justice for the injured.
“We were able to absorb the attacks of the remains of the old regime and its officers. We unfold their element of surprise and manage to move them away from the vital centers, ensuring most of the main roads, ”he said.
Although the relative calm followed Assad’s exhibition in December, violence has intensified in recent days when forces linked to the new rulers began to take energetic measures against an insurgency of the Assad minority alauit sect.
The struggle became revenge murders against Alauitas, a community that many major Sunnas believed that it was favored under Assad and that had included many bureaucrats and military officers.
The British -based Syrian observatory reported that more than 1,000 people were killed for two days of struggle, including 745 civilians, 125 members of the Syrian security forces and 148 loyal combatants to Assad.
Assad fled to Russia last year after the rebels led by the Sunni Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham group of Sharaa knocked down his government, ending decades of severe repression and a devastating civil war.
