As Syria witnessed one of the worst violence since the fall of its former President Bashr Al Assad’s regime, the new leader of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa has vowed to hunt down Assad loyalists and promised to hold anyone involved in harming civilians accountable, after the country saw deaths of over 830 civilians. According to a UK based monitor tracking the death toll in Syria, more than 830 civilians were killed in "massacres" targeting Alawites on the west coast from Friday to Saturday, BBC reported. A speech by Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose rebel group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) overthrew Assad’s government in December, was broadcast on TV and social media and he vowed to track and hunt down the loyalists of Bashar-al-Assad. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), apart from 830 civilians, 231 personnel of security forces and 250 pro-Assad fighters were also killed in the widespread violence in Syria, taking the overall death toll to 1,311. “Today, as we stand at this critical moment, we find ourselves facing a new danger - attempts by remnants of the former regime and their foreign backers to incite new strife and drag our country into a civil war, aiming to divide it and destroy its unity and stability,” Syria’s Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said, reported BBC. Sharaa further added, “We affirm that we will hold accountable, firmly and without leniency, anyone who is involved in the bloodshed of civilians or harming our people, who overstepped the powers of the state or exploits authority to achieve his own ends.” The violence in Syria from Friday to Saturday was sparked after an ambush on government forces on Thursday. It escalated into a full fledged conflict between Assad loyalists and government forces.
