Hundreds of civilians killed in Syria while the clashes explode in the former strongholds of Assad

The wave of violence that killed hundreds of civilians throughout Syria has reached the main cities of Damascus and Aleppo on Monday, hours after the provisional leader Ahmed al-Sharaa promised to bring those responsible to justice.

The fighting reported in the capital, Damascus and the second city of Aleppo have marked the first of these clashes there from the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The short -lived violence in the capital followed days of concentrated clashes in former strongholds of Assad along the Mediterranean coast of Syria.

More than 1,300 people were killed in Syria in three days at the end of Sunday, with civilians who include 973 of the dead, the Syrian observatory for human rights (Sohr) based in Great Britain (Sohr) in a note.

The budget of the victims at the beginning of Monday was not immediately clear.

The provisional president promised March 9 for the responsibility and an investigation after the killing of Civil Alawite has triggered an international backlash against the worst violence from the reversal of Bashar al-Assad.

“We must recognize the truth that the fallen regime left deep injuries during his domain,” Sharaa said in a late Sunday speech in which he asked peace and promised to take them to take into account the managers between the reports of executions and dismissal teams.

“Syria, with all its components, will remain united by the determination of its people”, he added, adding that he has formed “a research committee of facts to investigate events in the coastal region, to bring the authors to justice and to reveal the truths to the Syrian people, so that everyone knows who they are responsible”.

At the end of Sunday, most of the fights was concentrated in the coastal areas of Latakia, where at least 545 civilians had been said to have been killed and Tartus, where at least 252 civilians were killed, according to Sohr. Both areas host the Alawita Syrian community, the small Islamic sect to which the Assad family belongs and were at the center of the security concerns between the rise to power of Sharaa.

According to the Sohr, the vast majority of civilians killed in the outbreak of violence in the last few days have been Alawiti. NBC News has not been able to independently check this or the largest figures of victims.

By Monday, the Syrian State Radio Channel Sham FM has reported intense clashes between security forces and former members of the regime in the Damascus Damascus Mozzeh district that Case Embassy, ​​hotels and government departments. The Al-Watan newspaper said that the security forces had rejected an attack by unknown attackers on a checkpoint.

While the NBC News was not immediately able to independently confirm the clashes, they would have represented the first fight in the capital since Assad was swept by power in December.

In the meantime, the spokesman for the Syrian Ministry of Defense Col. Hassan Abdul-Ghani told the Syrian state press agency Syrian that the military units had rejected an attack and “losses inflicted” to Aleppo on the Syrian democratic forces-The force led by Kurish attached by the United States who had launched the attack.

In a statement later Monday, Abdul-Ghani said that the security forces were able to “absorb the attacks of the remains of the falling regime and its officers” from different areas, including within Latakia and Tartus. “This led to a contrast and the guarantee of the Region,” he said.

He added that new plans had been developed to eliminate future threats. He did not develop.

The interim president of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa asked national unity and peace on March 9, between the growing international recipt by the killing of civilians along the coast of the country in the worst violence from the reversal of the former president Bashar al-Assad, in the earth of the heart of the Alawita minority to which the latter belongs.

The violence of the last few days has marked a gloomy turning point of events, said Ahmed Bayram of the charity bandage of the Norwegian refugee council in a telephone interview on Monday morning.

“It’s worrying,” Bayram said. “The scale of what is happening was not seen even during the battles to oust the last government”.

The outbreak of violence raises the question if Sharaa can keep his promise to lead a more unified and inclusive national representative of the myriads of religious and ethnic groups of the country. Recent clashes can even undermine his progress in reassuring Western leaders that his vision for Syria does not represent a threat to the Syrian people.

On Sunday, the secretary of state Marco Rubio condemned violence, affirming in a declaration that “the United States is from religious and ethnic minorities in Syria”, as he invited the country leadership of the country to “consider the authors of these massacres against the minorities of the country responsible”.

For many Syrians, the fighting will be an unpleasant reminder of the violence they hoped for end with Assad’s rule.

Bayram said that there was a risk that the eruption could hinder efforts to administer humanitarian aid across the country.

“You don’t want this to drag,” he said, “and you don’t want to return to the cycles of violence, death and destruction and movement.” [NBC]