The Syrian government is still faced with the rebel threat from Assad Loyalists

In January, a few days after the first month of the fall of the Assad regime on the offensive of the lightning in Syria, a group of young people – some of them armed – were checked, checking their phones at the almost empty headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Damascus.

With Bashar al-Assad left, they arrived from Idlib, the region in the northwest of the country that for years Only a province controlled by the opposition, In the country.

Almost the night they were catapult to positions that were once controlled by hand-handed Assad’s fans and led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, Responsible for the destroyed country, devastated 13 -year civil war.

One of them, about 30, was recently appointed by a loud official and welcomed me in the room where any sign of the old regime was removed. High and shy, official notes about their iPad, acknowledging that the new rulers have encountered huge security problems, including the threat coming from Assad’s loyalists.

A Decontation of decades of the apparatus for the repressive machine AssadFor example, the country’s army and the Baat ruling party meant the dismissal of hundreds of thousands.

“There are people associated with the Assad who have not engaged in the process of reconciliation,” said an official who asked anonymity to discuss sensitive problems, citing the new authorities so that the former security forces pass weapons and communications to the old government.

“Our eyes are at all, but we don’t want to give the impression that we followed them. That’s why there were no mass raids.”

Since then, violence has grown, especially in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus, the support of the Assad family, but the contractions were relatively contained. By Thursday.

Since the government -related forces carried out surgery in the countryside of Latakia province, focusing on the former Assad, they were ambushed by militants.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 13 security forces, in the UK, in a regional official, who called the well -planned attack, which is carried out by the “remains of the millennium”.

Originally limited by Jableh, the excitement was more widely spread. Videos posted on the Internet showed heavy shooting in various fields. Authorities sent reinforcements, and more than 120 people were killed on Friday, the Syrian Observatory said.

It noted the most rigid day after the fall of Assad And the biggest problem that does not yet have the Provisional Transitional Government of President Sharaa and his efforts to consolidate powers.

According to the Institute of Studying WarA research team, former Assad regime members will probably create the most effective insurgent cells against new Syrian leaders capable of coordinating attacks.

“(They) already have existing networks that they can use for a rapid organization of rebels. These networks are military, intelligence and political networks and criminal syndicates that were supporters of the regime and lost significant economic and political influence in the next fall of Assad,” the statement said.

Coastal areas of Syria are also the heart of Assad Alavichy minority, offshoot of the Shi’s Islam. Its members played a prominent role in the Assad government, but with the arrival of the rebels under the leadership of the Sunnis lost power and the privileges they once had. Now they say they are under attack and discrimination, despite Sharaa’s promises to respect different religious sect.

On Friday, activists said the militants killed dozens of residents of men in AlavitaWhich will further aggravate tensions- and may lead to the support of the rebels in their anti-government jolt. The Syrian Observatory said the militants were with the government’s security forces, although it was not tested.

Authorities also encountered resistance to rubble forces in the south, although the transaction was reached earlier this week

The Damascus government does not control all Syria, where different factions are supported by different countries – they exercise power in different regions.

But for Sharaa the problem goes beyond the task to try to keep the country safe.

As Western suspicions of his intentions continue, his authorities are also struggling to cripple the sanctions imposed on Syria as part of the former regime, and a vital step to revive the country’s economy, where nine in every 10 people are in poverty.