Syria latest: historic deal signed after fighting kills over 1,000

Syria's central government has signed a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country's northeast. It's a major breakthrough for Interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa. It comes as the defence ministry says it's completed its operation against supporters of ousted president Bashar Al-Assad in his coastal heartland. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) More than a thousand people are reported to have died in the last few days - most of them civilians from the Alawite minority sect Assad belongs to. The violence erupted along the Mediterranean coast on Thursday when Assad loyalists launched a coordinated assault on security forces in Jableh. Fighting quickly spread to Tartus and Latakia - formerly an Assad stronghold - as the government moved to contain the insurgency, helped by fighters from across the country. Then the revenge killings began. According to a human rights organisation 545 civilians were killed in Latakia and 262 in Tartus. While in the Hama countryside 156 people were killed and 10 in the city of Homs. ----------------------- Follow us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Channel4News TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/