Over 70 said killed in fighting between Syrian security forces, Assad loyalists

By AFP 7 March 2025, 7:17 am

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Members of the Syrian government security forces deploy at a street in Damascus, Syria, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

More than 70 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in Syria in fighting between government security forces and militants loyal to deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad, a rights monitor says.

“More than 70 killed and dozens wounded and captured in bloody clashes and ambushes on the Syrian coast between members of the Ministry of Defense and Interior and militants from the defunct regime’s army,” the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says in a post on X.

SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale.

Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.