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.

A war monitoring group said more than 1,000 were killed in revenge attacks and clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad.

Syria's new leader vows accountability after mass killings, sparking international backlash against worst violence since Assad's overthrow.

Pro-government militias who took part in a coastal security campaign have started withdrawing into the centre of Syria, killing more Alawite civilians on the way, residents said on Sunday, after hundreds of the minority community were massacred in the worst violence since the removal of the regime of Bashar Al Assad three months ago.

Syria's leader on Sunday vowed accountability and an investigation after the killing of Alawite civilians triggered an international backlash against the worst violence since Bashar al-Assad's overthrow.

A war monitor says that clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have left more than 70 people dead and the area outside

They are the worst since Assad was removed from power in early December by insurgent groups led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.