A Syrian war monitor on Saturday said security forces and allied groups killed 532 Alawite civilians over the past days, revising upwards a previous toll of 340.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that "532 Alawite civilians were killed in the Syrian coastal areas and the Latakia mountains at the hands of security forces and allied groups" since Thursday,

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that warns the actual death toll could be “much higher.

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said Saturday,

Syria's leader Ahmed Al Sharaa on Friday urged insurgents from ousted president Bashar Al Assad's Alawite minority to lay down their arms and surrender after the fiercest attacks on the war-torn country's new rulers yet.

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers have killed more than 340 people, including women and children from the Alawite minority, in the country's coastal region since Thursday,

International alarm is growing over fighting in western Syria, where hundreds of civilians have been reportedly killed amid intense clashes.

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, including