According to a British-based war monitor, clashes between supporters of the regime of former President Bashar Assad and Islamists who seized control of Syria killed six Islamic fighters and injured others on Wednesday.
The fighters were slain while attempting to apprehend a former Assad regime official who was accused of issuing execution orders and arbitrary verdicts against thousands of prisoners, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The militants belonged to the group that spearheaded the spectacular onslaught that overthrew Assad earlier this month: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.
Though it has only been a few weeks after Assad left the nation and his government and troops disintegrated, Syria’s transition has gone surprisingly smoothly. Although they have pledged to uphold hardline Islamist principles, the insurgents who overthrew Assad are rooted in fundamentalist Islamist ideology, and though they have vowed.
According to activists and monitors, hundreds of Syrians have been slain in acts of retaliation after Assad’s downfall. The great majority of these victims are members of the Alawite minority, a branch of Shiite Islam that Assad is a part of. Gunshots were heard as Alawite demonstrators and Sunni counter-demonstrators clashed in the capital, Damascus. The Associated Press could not verify details of the incident.
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