fourteen Syrian “members of the interior ministry” killed in an ambush, according to the new ministry

“One protester was killed and five others injured after security forces in Homs opened fire to disperse demonstrators” took to the streets after the broadcast on social networks of a video showing “an attack by fighters” against an Alawite sanctuary in Aleppo, in the north of the country, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), Rami Abdel-Rahmane, communicated to Agence France-Presse.

Earlier this Wednesday, the Syrian Interior Ministry denounced an attempt “to sow discord among the Syrian people (…) at a delicate moment that Syria is going through”by circulating “again such images” of this attacked sanctuary while, according to the ministry, the facts date back to 1^is December during the capture of Aleppo by Islamist rebels.

Three witnesses reported to Agence France-Presse this Wednesday, demonstrations in the coastal towns of Tartous, Jableh and Latakia, in western Syria, where the Alawite community, from which the president comes, is very established. deposed Bashar Al-Assad.

The OSDH confirmed similar gatherings in Banias and Homs, the large city in the center of the country, where police declared a curfew from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. (local time), according to the official Syrian Press Agency. SANA.