Tartous: Intelligence arrests activists called for new Syria without Assad and opposition

Bashar al-Assad’s military intelligence has arrested members of Souriya Al Jadid Party (en: New Syria) from their office in Tartous after their call to get rid of both regime and opposition figures, according to activists. 

The powerful intelligence branch has rocked the office in Al Areedh Street in barbaric way, where no further information over the detainees’ destiny, activists say.

Tartous is populated mostly by members of Assad's Alawite minority sect, the most diehard supporters of his regime.

Unlike most other towns and cities across the country, Tartous has been relatively untouched by the 3  years of violence that has killed over 136,000 people, ravaged the economy, and leveled entire apartment blocks.