<span fr-original-class="customBullet" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 12px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block;" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 12px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;">• &nbsp;The Alawite issue:&nbsp;Syria's interim government, led by Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa (the HTS leader formerly known as al-Jolani), is facing problems with the country's Alawite minority, to which the ousted Bashar al-Assad and his close circle belonged to.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What happened:&nbsp;Supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops in an "ambush" near the Mediterranean port of Tartous, a stronghold of Alawite Muslim sect.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In other news:&nbsp;Thousands of people have protested in several cities across Syria after a video circulates showing an attack on an Alawite shrine in the north. Syrian police imposed an overnight curfew in the city of Homs.</li></ul><ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What they're saying:&nbsp;Syrian Ministry of Interior said on its official Telegram account that the video dated back to the rebel offensive on Aleppo in late November and the violence was carried out by unknown groups, adding that whoever was circulating the video now appeared to be seeking to incite sectarian strife.</li></ul>

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