Syrian leader Ahmed Shara called for peace days after the clashes, as it was claimed that the Syrian security forces had killed hundreds of civilians from the upper religious minority.
The Syrian Observatory in the United Kingdom for Human Rights (Sohr) – which monitors the fighting in Syria – said that about 745 civilians were killed in 30 “massacres” targeting the high in coastal areas on Friday and Saturday.
BBC was unable to independently verify the death of escalating violence, which is believed to be the worst since the fall of the Assad regime.
President Shara said: “We must preserve national unity and civil peace as possible and … we will be able to live together in this country.”
Speaking from a mosque in Damascus on Sunday, the temporary president said, “What is happening in Syria is among the expected challenges.”
Bashar al -Assad was overthrown last December after decades of repressive rule by his family and a 14 -year civil war.
The Syrian Observatory says that the number of fighters who have been killed in the past four days bring the total number of deaths to more than 1,000 people. This included about 125 fighters linked to the new government led by Islamic and 148 fighters supporting Assad.
Reuters news agency reported that at least 200 fighters had been killed.
The violence of the last days arose after an ambush on the government forces in the coastal area. A spokesman for the Syrian Ministry of Defense described it as “treacherous attacks” against security personnel, according to a report issued by SANA State News Agency.
Since then, a wave of clashes has escalated between Assad loyalists and government forces.
Amid the fighting, it was reported that hundreds of civilians fled their homes in the coastal provinces in Latakia and Tartus – which Hartls was from the ousted President Bashar al -Assad, who also belongs to the higher minority.
Alawits, whose sect is a branch of Shiite Islam, is about 10 % of the population of Syria, which is the majority of Muslims.
Violence has left the Alawite community in a “state of terror”, which is an activist in the city BBC was told on Friday.
The large crowds resorted to a Russian military base in Hmeimim in Latakia, according to Reuters.
The video footage shared by Reuters showed dozens of people chanting “People want Russian protection” outside the base.
Meanwhile, local media reported dozens of families to neighboring Lebanon.
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Gear Pedersen, said that he “is very anxious” through “very disturbing reports on civil losses” in the coastal areas of Syria.
He called on all aspects to refrain from procedures that could “destabilize” the country and endanger the “reliable and comprehensive political transition.”
