Syria security forces, allies killed 1,068 civilians: new monitor toll

A Syrian war monitor said Monday that the death toll from days of violence in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast had surpassed 1,000.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces and allied groups had killed 1,068 civilians, the vast majority Alawites, since Thursday, in the worst wave of violence since former president Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December.