Targeted killings of the Alawite minorities in Syria's coastal region continued this week despite the embattled country’s new Islamist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa’s call for civil peace, a war observatory has found.
Mr Sharaa's forces and rival groups have killed at least 1,200 civilians, most of them Alawites, in Latakia, Tatous, Hama and Homs provinces, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The toll rose this week after 132 civilians were killed on Tuesday, the UK-based monitoring group said.
