Special security sources revealed to Al Jazeera the movements of cells of the former regime that carried out simultaneous ambushes in the Latakia countryside, resulting in the killing of 16 security forces.
The military council formed by Brigadier General Ghiath Dala expanded its influence through an alliance with former leaders of the dissolved regime army.
The council received financial support from Hezbollah and Iraqi militias and logistical facilities from the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Dala formed an alliance with Mohammed Mahrez Jaber, the former commander of the Desert Hawks forces, who resides between Russia and Iraq, and also formed an alliance with Yasser Ramadan al-Hajal, who was a field commander in the Tiger Forces affiliated with Major General Suhail al-Hassan.
Al Jazeera revealed that the president of the deposed regime, Bashar al-Assad, is aware of the ongoing coordination between all armed groups with the support and supervision of a foreign country
At least 16 members of Syria’s security forces were killed on Thursday in an ambush carried out by militants linked to Bashar al-Assad’s ousted regime, a Syrian broadcaster reported, some of the worst violence the new government has faced since toppling him in December.
Syria TV, which is aligned with the new Damascus administration, said the clashes were continuing in the Jableh region, part of the coastal area which forms the heartland of the Alawite minority sect to which the al-Assad family belongs.
The coastal region has emerged as one of the main security challenges for President Ahmed al-Sharaa as his government works to consolidate control.
Syria’s state news agency SANA, citing a defense ministry source, said “remnants of al-Assad’s militias” had attacked in several areas in a unified way. Reinforcements were on their way to the Jableh area to support security forces, it said.
Earlier this week, two members of the defense ministry were killed in the city of Latakia by groups identified by state media as al-Assad militia remnants.
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