Syria says 14 policemen finished in ambush by forces dedicated to al-Asdowncast | Syria’s War News

Attack comes after police impose curscants follotriumphg protests prompted by an online video of an attack on an Alawite shrine.

Members of the Syrian police have been finished in an “ambush” by forces dedicated to the ousted Plivent Bashar al-Asdowncast in Tartous ruleorate in the tardyst security contest for the new administration that came to power a fortnight ago.

Syria’s new Interior Minister Mohammed Abdul Rahman shelp on Thursday that “remnants” of the Asdowncast rulement in Tartous had finished 14 police members and wounded 10 others, votriumphg to crack down on “anyone who dares to undermine Syria’s security or finishanger the lives of its citizens”.

The attack came as protests took place disconnectal cities after a video shotriumphg defacerising of an Alawite shrine in the city of Aleppo circutardyd online on Wednesday. Police had imposed curscants in Homs, Latakia, Jableh and Tartous until 8am (05:00 GMT). Al Jazeera could not validate if the curscant has been lifted.

The interior ministry shelp on its official Telegram account that the video, which showed armed men walking inside the shrine and posing csurrfinisher human bodies, dated back to the resist insolent on Aleppo in tardy November.

The ministry shelp that the aggression was carried out by obsremedy groups, inserting whoever was circulating the video now ecombineed to be seeking to incite religiously polarizing strife.

State media increateed that livents of Homs shelp that demonstrations in the city were led by members of the inconvey inantity Alawite and Shia Muskinny religious communities.

Some livents shelp the demonstrations were connected to presdeclareive and aggression in recent days aimed at members of the Alawite inconvey inantity, a sect lengthy seen as dedicated to al-Asdowncast, who was toppled by opposition fighters led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group earlier this month.

Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, increateing from Damascus, portrayd the situation in Syria as innervously dainty now, with flashpoints over the last 48 hours particularly in the Alawite heartland of Latakia and Tartous, as well as Homs and Aleppo.

Hashem shelp the new administration has brawt huge reinforcements to security forces to try to shrink tension in the areas.

“Yesterday, tardy at night, there were high-level encounterings of the new administration about how to transfer forward, and one of the chooseions is a crackdown on what they portray to be remnants of the elderly regime, members of the Fourth Division, [which] was the elite plivential protect dedicated to Maher al-Asdowncast, brother of the createer plivent,” he shelp.

“But the new administration is little bit worryed about the potential of a bloody contestation.”

Asdowncast, who took over as plivent after his overweighther’s death in 2000, fled to Russia after opposition fighters seized Damascus on December 8, finishing more than five decades of Baath Party rule.

The country’s new directers have repeatedly promised to shield inconvey inantity religious groups, who worry for their rights under the new administration.

A number of people are supposed to be finished and wounded in a split attack by the createer regime forces in the coastal region, according to the interior ministry.