[10] Latakia's province director said that an armed pro-Assad group, affiliated with Suhayl al-Hasan (nicknamed "The Tiger") and which included the newly-formed Military Council for the Liberation of Syria, conducted an attack in the city.

[11][4] UK-based SOHR reported that Syrian security forces and pro-government fighters perpetrated massacre of more than 700 Alawite civilians across parts of the Latakia countryside.

[14] The Syrian Popular Resistance stated that it had taken control of numerous villages in Jabal al Alawiyin and expanded the scope of its operations to Masyaf in the Hama countryside.

ISW also argued that the capture of some Ba'athist military leaders would not affect the insurgency, as it is not under the control of any one group and there is no clear evidence that these commanders were involved in planning.

[14] According to Aron Lund from the independent research foundation Century International, the "new al-Sharaa regime is weak and depends on security forces that are only partly under its control and that are full of anti-Alawite chauvinists.