UN: 'Entire families' reportedly killed by Syrian militants in Alawite coastal area | DW News

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group based in the UK, has reported a death toll of over 1,000 people near the coastal town of Latakia in northwest Syria. According to the war monitor, Syria's interim government security forces killed 745 civilians at close shooting range in the Alawite coastal town. In addition, 148 militants loyal to Assad as well as 125 members of the interim government's forces were also killed. The death toll has not yet been independently verified.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Syria, under its current leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa, to hold the "perpetrators" of the killings to account, saying that "radical Islamic terrorists" were responsible for the violence.

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0:00 Death toll of massacres pushes 1,000 people in coastal area of northwest Syria
2:46 Muzna Dureid, Syrian human rights activist on what Syria's interim government must do to ensure justice for Syria's victims and to hold those behind massacres accountable
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Post from DW News on March 10, 2025

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