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Security forces in Syria are battling gunmen loyal to deposed President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s coastal region for a second day, with dozens of people reported killed in the fighting.
Syrian authorities said remnants of the removed al-Assad regime launched a deadly and well-planned attack on their forces in Latakia on Thursday.
Latakia’s police chief told Al Jazeera that the city was secured on Friday afternoon, and a siege on military and security sites had been lifted. Meanwhile clashes continued elsewhere.
Authorities have not issued a death toll, but war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that more than 70 people had been killed in the fighting. Among the dead were security forces, gunmen and a few civilians, it said.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the death toll.
Government forces sent major reinforcements overnight to the cities of Latakia and Tartous as well as nearby towns and villages that are the heartland of the minority Alawite sect and a base of support for al-Assad, to try to get the situation under control, state media reported.
Security forces in Syria are battling gunmen loyal to deposed President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s coastal region for a second day, with dozens of people reported killed in the fighting.
Syrian authorities said remnants of the removed al-Assad regime launched a deadly and well-planned attack on their forces in Latakia on Thursday.
Latakia’s police chief told Al Jazeera that the city was secured on Friday afternoon, and a siege on military and security sites had been lifted. Meanwhile clashes continued elsewhere.
Authorities have not issued a death toll, but war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that more than 70 people had been killed in the fighting. Among the dead were security forces, gunmen and a few civilians, it said.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the death toll.
Government forces sent major reinforcements overnight to the cities of Latakia and Tartous as well as nearby towns and villages that are the heartland of the minority Alawite sect and a base of support for al-Assad, to try to get the situation under control, state media reported.
