Hundreds of civilians killed by government forces in Syria, war monitors say
Three days of clashes between fighters affiliated to the new leaders of Syria and those faithful to the external dictator Bashar al-Assad left deaths of dozens of civilians, according to two war monitoring groups, who reported on Saturday that many of them had been killed by the government forces.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has monitored the Syrian conflict since 2011, declared on Sunday at the beginning that over 1,000 people had been killed in the coastal provinces of Tartus and Latakia. That figure included about 700 civilians, most of the government forces. The information cannot be verified independently.Another monitoring group, the Syrian network for human rights, previously reported that the government's security forces had killed around 125 civilians. He said th...