According to sources, clashes broke out between the Department of Military Operations, the military apparatus of the new authority in the country, and former members of popular militias, in the village of Balqsa, in the west of the central province of Homs.

During the clashes, two soldiers lost their lives and another 10 were injured, while a commander of the former popular militia named Shuja Ali lost his life in the fighting and another eight were arrested.

In the province of Hama, public security forces of the Ministry of the Interior in the current Syrian government announced several operations to capture those they called remnants of the previous regime.

In Aleppo, in the north of the country, violent clashes broke out between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish majority, and armed factions supported by Turkiye in the municipality of Manbej, resulting in the deaths of around 30 people on both sides, according to a preliminary report.

The pro-Turkish armed men attacked advanced positions of the SDF near the Tishreen dam and on the Qara Qawzak bridge, where violent clashes broke out between the two sides.

The clashes coincide with negotiations between representatives of the SDF and the factions supported by Ankara, under the sponsorship of the United States, in order to calm the escalation.

Violence also occurred during operations to arrest former military personnel of the ousted government of Bashar Al-Assad, in the rural areas of the coastal province of Tartous.

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