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Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has vowed accountability and an investigation after reports of mass killings of Alawite civilians triggered an international backlash against the worst violence since the overthrow of former president Bashar al-Assad. In its latest toll issued March 10, 2025, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said 973 civilians had died since March 6 in “killings, field executions and ethnic cleansing operations” by security personnel or pro-government fighters in the coastal heartland of the Alawite minority community to which the toppled president belonged.