Syrian leader Ahmed Sharaa asked for peace on Sunday after hundreds of people were killed in coastal areas in the worst episode of community violence since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK -based war monitor, said on Saturday (8) that.
“We have to preserve national unity and domestic peace, we can live together,” said Sharaa, the interim president, while the clashes continued between forces linked to the new Islamic and combatant rulers of the Alauíta de Assad sect.
“Rest assured about Syria, this country has the characteristics for survival,” Sharaa said in a video released, speaking of a mosque in her childhood neighborhood, Mazzah, in Damascus. “What is currently happening in Syria is within the expected challenges.”
Syrian security sources said at least 200 of their members were killed in clashes with former military personnel who owed Assad’s loyalty after coordinated and ambushed attacks against their forces that were fought on Thursday (6).
The attacks became revenge murders when thousands of armed supporters of the new Syria leaders across the country have come down to the coastal areas to support the besieged forces of the new administration.
The clashes continued at night in several cities where armed groups shot security forces and ambushed cars on highways that lead to major cities in the coastal area, a Syrian security source told Reuters on Sunday (9).
A source of security added that Pro-Assad insurgents were now intensifying their campaign by staging running and escape attacks at various public services in the last 24 hours.
They damaged a main energy station that cut electricity into parts of the province, while a main water pumping station and various fuel deposits were interrupted.
“They are now trying to create damage, interrupt life and attack vital facilities,” he added.
the police set up new control posts within the city. Two residents said that sounds of fire and artillery could be heard around the coastal city.
A source of security said the clashes continued in several areas.
Damascus authorities were also sending reinforcements to intensify their safety presence in the province, where dense forests and rugged terrain were helping the old combatant combatants, another police source said.
