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SYRIA - MARCH 7: Fighters with the new Syrian government ride in a truck on March 7, 2025 on the road between Tartus and Latakia, Syria. Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between loyalists of the deposed Assad regime and forces of the country's new rulers. It is the heaviest such fighting since Syrian rebels toppled the Assad regime last December. (Photo by Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images)
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Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the 13-year civil war in December.

The defense ministry’s announcement comes after a surprise attack by gunmen from the Alawite community on a police patrol near the port city of Lattakia Thursday, spiraled into widespread clashes across Syria’s coastal region.

The Syrian observatory for human rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said 1,130 people were killed in the clashes, including 830 civilians.

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