More than 1,000 people have died in the clashes between supporters of Bashar al-Assad and the new security forces
The United States and Russia have asked the United Nations Security Council for a meeting to discuss the escalation of violence in Syria on Monday (10.mar.2025). Syrian’s interim president said he was forming an independent committee to investigate the clashes. The information is from.
More than 1,000 people have already died in the clashes between former president’s supporters and the country’s new regime security forces, according to. The institution stated on Saturday (8.mar) that 745 dead were civilians, 125 members of Syrian security forces and 148 loyal combatants to Assad.
Observatory chief Rami Abdulrahman said on Sunday (9.Mar) that the death toll was one of the highest since a chemical weapon attack in 2013 by the Assad government. The action killed 1,400 people in a suburb of Damascus.
The government of Assad, which had been in power for 24 years, fell on December 8, 2024, when rebels from the HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) group took the capital Damascus. The HTS is the successor of the Al-Nusra Front, founded in 2011 as a group affiliated with al Qaeda of Iraq and with jihadist ideology.
Ahmad al-Sharaa held the supporters of Assad and foreign powers, without citing examples, for conflicts. “At this critical moment, we are faced with a new danger: attempts by the remnants of the Old Regime and its foreign supporters to incite new conflicts and drag our country into a civil war, with the aim of dividing it and destroying its unity and stability.”said the interim president in a speech broadcast on national television.
Previously, the main commander of a Syrian Kurdish armed group had held responsible Islamic factions supported by Türkiye for the wave of violence. The country did not immediately respond to the allegation. Kurds are in a separate battle against the country.
