Syria’s new rebel-led government say 14 inner ministry staff were killed and 10 injured in an “ambush” by way of forces unswerving to ousted President Bashar al-Assad within the west of the rustic.They are saying the preventing happened close to the Mediterranean port of Tartous on Tuesday.Stories say the protection forces had been ambushed as they attempted to arrest a former officer in connection to his function on the infamous Saydnaya jail, as regards to the capital Damascus.Simply over two weeks in the past, Assad’s presidency fell to insurgent forces led by way of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) faction.The United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated 3 militants had been additionally killed within the clashes.It added that the protection forces later introduced in reinforcements.The rebels’ lightning offensive that began from Syria’s north-east and unfold all over the place the rustic ended the Assad circle of relatives’s greater than 50-year-rule. Assad and his circle of relatives had been compelled to escape to Russia.HTS has since promised to offer protection to the rights and freedoms of many non secular and ethnic minorities in Syria.HTS is designated as a terrorist organisation by way of the UN, america, the EU, the United Kingdom and others.On Tuesday, protests broke out within the nation over the burning of a Christmas tree, prompting recent requires the brand new government to offer protection to minorities.
