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 so ongoing low-level violence across a wide spectrum of Syrian communities. Several inter-family disputes escalated into armed clashes in Idlib and Hama, triggering heavy ISC deployment and a potential retaliatory attack against a police station in Idlib. Theft and personal-dispute-linked murders were reported across western Syria, with many perpetrators arrested. The Ministry of Interior also released some data on its October operations, including stating that it dismantled 30 smuggling networks across the country.