Religious minority group Alawites, who have been the target of the ongoing revenge killings in Syria, narrated the ordeal of being a witness to the bloodbath that has resulted in the death of over 745 in the country.

By Jaidaa Taha and Suleiman Al-Khalidi DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian leader Ahmed Sharaa scrambled on Sunday to contain some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country's new Islamist rulers.

Head of UN agency calls for protection of health care facilities amid rising tensions in country's coastal provinces - Anadolu Ajansı

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

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. More than 1,000 people have been killed since Thursday, a war monitor said.

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.

Fierce clashes over the past two days between security forces under Syria’s new Islamist government and gunmen belonging to the country’s Alawite religious minority killed scores of people, marking the most widespread violence since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.