At least 16 officers and soldiers from from Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha in coastal Latakia province have been killed in April, local activists said.
The death toll included 8 officers who were killed throughout Syria.
Qardaha Newspaper has mourned 40 troops without giving further detail when or where they had been killed.
No accurate figures for the deaths of Qardaha in the six-year-old war but activists said the death toll topped to 200 troops aand militiamen fro; the heartland province of Assad.
The traditional home of the Assad family, which has ruled Syria since 1970, was a main supplier for Shabiha militia.
The village in the mountains overlooking the coastal town of Latakia, believed to be the last bulwark for Assad's family.
Syria's conflict began in March 2011 as popular protests against four decades of Assad family rule but changed into armed insurgency under a security force crackdown.
Meanwhile, more than 465,000 people killed and over 12 million forced to flee their homes
