The death toll from two days of clashes between the Syrian security forces and loyalists of the overthrown President Bashar al -Murder and the revenge that had increased to more than 1000, said a war monitoring group on Saturday, making it one of the most deadly violence violence Ever since Syria's conflict has begun 14 years ago.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, said that, in addition to 745 civilian residents, 125 security forces and 148 militants related to Assad were killed in executions. It adds that electricity and drinking water were cut off in large places around the city.
US Secretary of State Mark Rubio condemned the murder in statement Sunday.
“The United States condemns radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihad, who have killed people in Western Syria in recent days. The United States stands with religious and ethnic minorities in Syria, including Christian, rubble and Kurdish communities, and offers their specifications,” Added “,” Viewing, which are preparing on issues that are underway on issues that were delayed on issues that were stated on issues that were delayed on issues that are part of “massacres against minor communities.”
The skirmishes, which broke out on Thursday, noted the great escalation in the call of the new government in Damascus, three months after the rebels took power after being removed by Assad from power.
The government stated that they responded to Assad's remains and accused “individual actions” of bewildered violence.
The murders of the revenge, which began on Friday by Muslim militants, the faithful government against the members of the Assad Minority sect, is the main strike on the hawth of Tahrir al-Shame, the faction that led to the overthrow of the former government. Alawites for decades have been a considerable part of Assad's base.
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Residents of the villages of Alavita and cities talked to the Associated Press about the murder during which the militants shot Alavites, most of them men, on the streets or at the gate of their homes. Many houses of the Alavites were looted, and then set on fire in different areas, two residents of the coastal region of Syria reported to their repositories.
They asked that their names would not be published because of fear to be killed by militants, adding that thousands of people fled to the nearby security mountains.
Residents of the bars, one of the cities that worse than the violence, said that the bodies were scattered on the streets or left inviolable in the houses and on the roofs of the buildings, and no one was able to gather them. One resident said the militants prevented the residents from removing the bodies of their five neighbors, killed on Friday at close.
Ali Sheha, a 57-year-old Bania resident, who escaped with his family and neighbors a few hours after the violence began on Friday, said at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues in one bania, where the Alavites lived, some of them in their shops or in their homes.
Sheha called the attacks the “murder of revenge” by the minority for the crimes committed by the Assad government. Other residents said the militants included foreign militants and militants from neighboring villages and cities.
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“It was very bad. The bodies were on the streets,” he said, Sheri said, talking on the phone almost 12 miles from the city. He said the militants were gathering less than 100 meters from their apartment building, shooting accidentally in homes and residents, and at least in one incident he knew, asked the residents to check their religion and sect before killing them. He said the militants also burned some homes, stole cars and robbed homes.
The head of the Observatory Rami Abdurahman said the murder of revenge had stopped at the beginning of the Saturday.
“It was one of the biggest massacres during the Syrian conflict,” Abdurhman said about the murder of civilian residents.
The previous figure given by the group was more than 600 dead. Official data did not come out.
The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon for four Syrian safety members in the Northwestern village of Al-Jenudiya after they were killed in contractions along the Syria coast. Dozens of people participated at the funeral.
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The State Information Agency in Syria quotes an unnamed official of the Ministry of Defense as a statement that government forces have resumed control over most of the Assad loyalists. It adds that the authorities have closed all the roads leading to the coastal region “to prevent violations and gradually restore stability.”
On Saturday morning, the bodies of 31 people were killed in revenge in Tueim's central village to rest in the mass grave, residents said. Those who were killed, nine children and four women, said the residents, sending photos of bodies, thrown into a white cloth when they were laid out in a mass grave.
Lebanon legislator Haidar Nasser, who occupies one of the two places allocated to the Alavit sect in parliament, said people escaped from Syria for security in Lebanon. He said he had no accurate numbers.
Nasser said that many people were leaning at the Russian air base in Khmeimim, Syria, adding that the international community should protect the Alavites who are Syria, devoted to their country. He said that after the fall of Assad, many Alavites were fired from his work, and some former soldiers who reconciled with the new authorities were killed.
Under Assad Alavita held the main positions in the army and security bodies. Over the past few weeks, the new government has accused its loyalists of attacking the country's new security forces.
France has expressed a “deep concern” about recent violence in Syria. Paris “condemns the strongest atrocities committed against civilians on the basis of religious sites and against prisoners,” the foreign ministry said.
France called on the Syrian temporary bodies to make sure that independent investigations “shed full light on these crimes.”
The last skirmishes began when government troops tried to detain the search, near the Jebb, and was ambushed by Assad's loyalists, the observatory reports.