section_path: Aftermath/Assad loyalist clashes
section_name: Assad loyalist clashes
paragraph_text: Assad loyalist clashes
  
  Between late November and early December 2024, several clashes took place between Assad loyalists and the forces of the Syrian caretaker government, primarily in Alawite -majority areas of Tartus and Latakia governorates, as well as in the western Hama and Homs governorates.
  
  On 8 March 2025, the UK-based SOHR reported that Syrian security forces and pro-government fighters had committed a massacre of more than 740 Alawite civilians during clashes in western Syria in March 2025. There were reports that Alawites who had opposed the Assad regime in the past were also murdered in sectarian attacks.
  
  After the clashes were suppressed, the SDF agreed to integrate into state institutions on 10 March 2025.