Alwaght- Syria has accused Saudi regime, Turkey of involvement in Monday’s terrorist attacks which killed over 100 people in the coastal towns of Jableh and Tartus in the country’s Latakia province. The locations are close to two Russian military facilities: the Khmeimim airbase and the Tartus naval base.
ISIS terrorists claimed the attacks saying via its news outlet, Amaq, that "gatherings of Alawites in Tartous and Jableh" had been targeted. The Alawites are a minority sect in Syria.
The Syrian Foreign has sent two identical letters to the UN Secretary-General and the head of the Security Council regarding the terrorist bombings that took place in the cities of Tartous and Jableh on Monday.
Syria says that seven bombings in the two cities claimed the lives of dozens of civilians and injured dozens more, most of them sustaining severe injuries, adding that most of the victims are women and children, and that the attacks also caused massive damage to properties, infrastructure, and nearby houses.
The Ministry asserted that these terrorist bombings “constitute a serious escalation by the extremist and malicious regimes Saudi, Turkish and Qatari regime.” The statement noted that the three regimes seek to undermine the efforts that aim at stopping the shedding of Syrian blood, and they also seek to derail the Geneva talks and the cessation of hostilities and truce arrangements, as well as turning attention away from the Syrian Arab Army’s achievements in the war against terrorism.
The letters noted that the refusal by the representatives of the US, France, Britain, and Ukraine at the Security Council to approve listing “Jaish al-Islam” and “Ahrar al-Cham” among the Council’s list of terrorist organizations and entities, and their insistence on referring to these two terror organizations as “moderate armed opposition” confirms that these states and others are still adopting a policy of overlooking these terrorist organizations’ crimes, as well as showcasing these states’ lack of seriousness in combating terrorism.
The Ministry asserted that the Syrian government will not allow such terrorist crimes and massacres to dissuade it from fulfilling its duties in combating terrorism and working towards a political solution for the crisis in Syria through an intra-Syrian dialogue led by the Syrians themselves.
Syria has also urged the UN to take punitive measures against the states and regimes and that support terrorism, particularly the regimes in Riyadh, Ankara, and Doha.
