Rebuilding Security in New Syria: Year 2, Week 27
Tracking the spread of new security forces and security incidents in post-Assad Syria from June 8 to June 14
Announcements of security deployments mostly in western Syria, with an emphasis on the minority regions. This weekly update is intended to provide base level data for more holistic research into the rebuilding of the security and governance structures of post-Assad Syria. Direct links to primary sources are provided throughout.
This week saw limited violence until June 14. Prior to this, two sectarian-motivated killings against Shia men were committed in Aleppo and Damascus, while an armed robbery attempt in a mostly minority neighborhood in Homs ended with the attacker dead.
However, Sunni-on-Sunni violence escalated sharply this week. Two bedouin families clashed in Homs city, including one family attacking local MoI units, Between June 13 and June 14, more than a dozen Sunni towns across the country saw intense riots targeting local ex-regime shabiha. Several former regime elements were killed. The Ministry of Interior and various community leaders put out calls for peace late on June 14, but riots continued into the evening of June 15.