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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a war monitoring group, says that at least 1,000 people have been killed as a result of the violent clashes in over the last few days.
The organisation says that 745 civilians were killed in 30 "massacres" targeting Alawites on the west coast on Friday and Saturday.
That is in addition to fighters killed over the past four days, and brings the total deaths so far to more than 1,000.