Syria in mourning after mass killings in Alawite region

Just three months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s régime in Syria, the new government, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, have drawn international condemnation for a four day spiral of violence in the regions of Latakia and Tartus. When a group of gunmen loyal to Assad ambushed Syrian security forces, they hit back with a series of attacks that killed nearly 1500 people, including 973 civilians according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.