The violence poses the biggest challenge to the country’s authorities since Assad was ousted in December 2024, in a lightning offensive by Islamist-led rebels.
A curfew was enforced in the coastal province of Latakia, the Assad clan’s stronghold and home to a sizeable Alawite community, the same religious minority as the former president.
The operation “targeted remnants of Assad’s militias and those who supported them”, a security official cited by SANA said, as he called on civilians to “stay in their homes”.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ latest toll, the clashes killed 71 people over the past day, among them 35 members of the security forces, 32 gunmen and four civilians.
The authorities have also imposed curfews in Homs and Tartus.
Kneifati said security forces would “work to eliminate their presence”.
SANA said meanwhile that security forces had detained Ibrahim Huweija, a general who was “accused of hundreds of assassinations” under the rule of Assad’s father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.
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