Syria's leader vowed on Sunday to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country's new Islamist rulers and said he would hold to account anyone who overstepped their authority.
More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemns violence by ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ and expresses support for minority sects in Syria.
The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said.
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