内容摘要：He still doesn't know whether he is allowed to continue employing the farmers or if they can show up to work.

He still doesn't know whether he is allowed to continue employing the farmers or if they can show up to work.

They say 10 other troops were wounded in the fighting on Tuesday near the Mediterranean port of Tartous, a stronghold of Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect.The clashes with pro-Assad loyalists are the first direct challenge to the authority of Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa.

Assad's presidency fell to rebel forces led by al-Sharaa's Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) faction just over two weeks ago.Security forces launched an operation in Tartous province on Thursday, according to state news agency Sana, in a bid to "restore security, stability and civil peace".Sana reported that the forces had "neutralised... a number of remnants of Assad's militias" in the Tartous countryside, and that it was pursuing others.

Reports say the security forces had earlier been ambushed as they tried to arrest a former officer in connection to his role at the notorious Saydnaya prison, close to the capital, Damascus.The UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said three "armed men", which it did not identify, were also killed in the clashes.

The SOHR added that the security forces later brought in reinforcements.

On Thursday, it said the former officer, Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, had been arrested together with 20 other people.Rosie Walker, of law firm Gilson Gray which is representing the parents, said: "This case will have far reaching implications."

BBC Scotland News understands that the Scottish government is confident that the vast majority of schools in Scotland already offer single-sex lavatories.Ministers are still considering the implication of the Supreme Court judgement and whether any changes will have to be made to toilet provisions.

Ms Walker said all schools in Scotland would now have to "urgently review" whether half of their toilets are for boys and half for girls, as is required by theShe added: "This case, on top of the Supreme Court decision last week, gives focus to the importance of protecting sex-based rights and single-sex spaces."