Is an Assadist insurgency emerging on the Syrian coast?

Is an Assadist insurgency emerging on the Syrian coast?

In a shaky handheld video uploaded on 2 September to an obscure Facebook page, a man crouching low behind an earth berm films a busy highway. He mumbles the date and then says, “we are the Men of Light,” before an explosion immediately rips through a passing General Security vehicle in front of him. The government’s Ministry of the Interior would blame the attack, which killed two security services personnel, on “remnant elements associated with…