The Syrian Ministry of Defense says it has completed a military operation in the western coastal area of ​​the country, after days of violence in which hundreds of people were killed.

A ministry spokesman said that the security forces were “neutralizing” the loyalists of former President Bashar al -Assad in several towns in Latakia and the children’s provinces and they were “representing the way for life to return to normal.”

A monitoring group says that more than 1500 people have been killed since Thursday, including 1068 civilians.

The gunmen, who are loyal to the Sunni government led by the Islamic, were accused of carrying out killings to revenge against the Assad sect members in the upper sect in the wake of a deadly ambush in a security patrol.

The temporary president, Ahmed Al -Sharra, said that he will establish an independent committee to investigate the killings and insisted that the perpetrators will be held accountable.

Violence is the worst in Syria since Shara led the rebellious lightning attack that toppled a bench in December, where he ended 13 years of destroyed civil war in which more than 600,000 people were killed and 12 million were forced to flee their homes.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense Hassan Abdel -Ghani Ali X announced that the security operation in Latakia and Tartous had ended after “achieving all the specified goals.”

“Our forces neutralized the security cells and the remains of the former regime from the town of Mukhtaria, the city of Al -Mazariya, the Zobar region, and other locations in Latakia Province, as well as Dalia Town, and they scream.

He also said that public institutions in the region were now able to resume their work, adding: “We are preparing to return normal life and work to enhance security and stability.”

Abdel -Ghani promised that the security forces “will give the investigation committee the full opportunity to reveal the conditions of these incidents, verify the facts and bring justice to the oppressed.”

In an interview on Monday, Shara admitted that there were “many violations” after the outbreak of violence and promised to punish everyone responsible, including his allies if necessary.

“Syria is a legal state. The law will take its path to everyone,” he told Reuters.

“We fought to defend the oppressed, and we will not accept that any fair blood be thrown, or does not prevent a punishment or accountability, even among the closest to us,” he said.

The government has launched the operation in Latakia Province in response to a growing rebellion by Assad’s loyalists in recent weeks. The region is the heart of the Alawite sect, to which many political and military elite of the previous regime belong.

On Thursday, security personnel by militants in the town of Jableh were subjected to the arrest of an official in the required Assad regime. According to at least 13 officers, it was killed.

The security forces received reinforcements to the area, who were joined by armed supporters of the government. Over the next four days, they stormed many of the Alawite cities and villages, as residents said they carried out the murders and black for revenge.

A wide video clip showed the bodies of at least twenty men in civilian clothes, stacked in a home yard, in the Mukhtaria. Elsewhere, accounts from the fighters looking for Alawite individuals appeared and killed entire families immediately.

Hippa, a Yiite woman in Banias, told the BBC that the Chechen fighters loyal to the government attacked her neighborhood.

“Our neighbors were killed, including children. They came and took everything, gold, and everything … they stole all cars in the neighborhood. They even went to the supermarket and took everything from the shelves.”

She added: “We were waiting for our role. We did not know when it would come. We saw death, and we saw people dying in front of us and now all our friends and neighbors went,” she added. “They killed innocent people with cold blood who have nothing to do with any of this.”

A man from the era whose family lives in Banias said in a voice message that one of the relatives was kidnapped from his home by the militants from the Islamic Sheri group, Haya Tirri al -Sham (HTS), who went to the door to the door.

“His mother made a mistake in opening the door when she did it.” I fired a member of HTS between her legs … so she shouted, “he said. “Her son … ran to see what happened with her. [saw] To him, they took him with them and disappeared. They did not return. “

He also said that the residents of the Alawi neighborhoods in Banias are still hiding in their homes on Monday morning because they were very afraid of adventure abroad to see if it was safe.

He added that the bodies of those who were killed were buried in a mass grave near a shrine on the outskirts of the city, while they are not yet.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK -based monitoring group, stated that more than 1540 people were killed in Latakia, Tartus, Hama and meter provinces.

Among them are 1068 civilians, and the vast majority of them are the Alpine who said that they died as a result of “killings, field executions and ethnic cleansing” by security personnel or pro -government fighters, as well as 230 security personnel and 250 supporters of Assad.

Security sources also told Reuters that 300 security personnel were killed.

The BBC was unable to independently verify the death fee.

SANA government news agency said that a mass grave containing the bodies of security personnel was found in the birthplace of the former president in Qarra on Sunday. Turkey -based Syria TV was killed as saying that Assad’s loyalists buried the police who were killed in the last fighting there.

United Nations Human Rights Chief Volcker Turk said his office received “very disturbing reports of entire families, including women, children and fighting fighters,”

He added: “There are reports on brief executions on a sectarian basis by the perpetrators of the unknown perpetrators, by members of the security forces in the authorities of the Acting Persons, as well as through the elements related to the previous government.”

He called for quick measures by the interim authorities in Syria to protect civilians and hold those responsible for the killings and other violations to be relied upon.