A Syria war monitor said Friday that security forces killed 136 members of the Alawite minority, to which toppled president Bashar al-Assad belongs, a day after deadly clashes with gunmen loyal to him triggered a major security operation.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 231 people have been killed since the clashes erupted on Thursday along the country’s western coast. They were the fiercest attacks on Syria’s new rulers since Assad’s ouster, and followed other deadly incidents in the area earlier this week.
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