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Over 70 killed as Assad loyalists clash with Syria's security forces
The New Indian Express Hubballi
|March 08, 2025
CLASHES between Syrian security forces under the country's new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad in Syria's western coastal region have killed more than 70 people and left an area outside government control, a war monitor said Friday.
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The clashes, which erupted on Thursday and appear coordinated across the coastal region, were a major escalation and a challenge to the new government in Damascus, where the former insurgents now in power have pledged to unite Syria after 14 years of brutal civil war.
This story is from the March 08, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Hubballi.
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