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Syria President Calls For Unity After Reports Of Mass Killings

A picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian forces in the coastal city of Tartus (Credit: AFP)

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa called for national unity and peace on Sunday, after more than 1,000 people were reportedly killed in coastal Syria in the worst clashes since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.

The violence erupted on Thursday between the new security forces and loyalists of the former government along the Mediterranean coast in the heartland of the Alawite minority to which Assad belonged.

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