section_path: Violence and massacres/March/4 March
section_name: 4 March
paragraph_text: 4 March
  
  On Tuesday 4 March, according to state media, security forces launched a campaign against Assad loyalist militias in the Daatour neighbourhood of Latakia city after an ambush by "members of the remnants of Assad militias" killed two security personnel. Ali Akbar Velayati, an international affairs advisor to Iran 's supreme leader, said a civil war could break out in Syria at any moment, and that Iran had evidence "indicating the beginnings of the state's disintegration."