Syria says 14 security personnel killed in ‘ambush’ by Assad loyalists | masr356.com

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) mentioned three militants have been additionally killed in the clashes.

The SOHR added that the security forces later introduced in reinforcements.

In a separate improvement, the Syrian authorities imposed an in a single day curfew in the central metropolis of Homs, state media reported.

Stories say this adopted unrest after a video purportedly displaying an assault on an Alawite shrine.

Syria’s inside ministry mentioned it was an previous video, courting again to the insurgent offensive on Aleppo in late November, and the violence was carried out by unknown teams.

The SOHR mentioned one demonstrator was killed and 5 wounded in Homs.

Demonstrations have been additionally reported in areas together with the cities of Tartous and Latakia, and Assad’s hometown of Qardaha.

Alawites are the minority sect from which the Assad household originates, and to which lots of the former regime’s political and navy elite belonged.

The HTS-led lightning offensive that began from Syria’s north-east and unfold all around the nation ended the Assad household’s greater than 50-year-rule.

Assad and his household have been compelled to flee to Russia.

HTS has since promised to guard the rights and freedoms of many spiritual and ethnic minorities in Syria.

HTS is designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, the US, the EU, the UK and others.

On Tuesday, protests broke out in the nation over the burning of a Christmas tree, prompting recent requires the brand new authorities to guard minorities.