According to the monitoring organization, the security forces had been arresting a former officer of the al-Assad regime.
According to the interior minister of the Syrian transitional government, 14 members of the ministry’s security forces were killed in an ambush in Tartus province on Wednesday.
Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel Rahman claimed that the ousted president was behind the attack to Bashar al-Assad loyal parties. According to Rahman, the employees of the Ministry of the Interior were in the area doing security-related tasks.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights by In addition to 14 members of the security forces, three armed men were killed in the province of Tartus. The information of the organization operating from Britain is based on its network of sources in Syria.
According to the organization, the security forces had been in the area to arrest a former officer who, according to the organization, was involved in the crimes committed in the notorious Saidnaya prison. Many residents of the area had refused to let the security forces search their houses, the organization says.
According to the organization’s information, the wanted officer’s brother and other armed men were behind the ambush of the security forces.