Damascus, March 10 -- A Syrian war monitor said on Sunday that security forces and allied groups have killed 830 Alawite civilians over the past four days, prompting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to call for national unity and peace.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the latest deaths among Alawite civilians pushed the overall toll in violence since Thursday to 1,311, as fighting killed 231 security personnel and 250 fighters loyal to ousted president Bashar al-Assad.
The violence between the new security forces and loyalists of the former government has escalated into the largest challenge to the new government's forces since Sharaa's Islamist-led coalition toppled Assad in December.P13
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