Footage and satellite images reviewed by The Times show civilians in the compound, among the thousands who have fled the violent unrest gripping Syria’s coastal region.

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 years of civil war — and it threatens to open an endless cycle of vengeance.

Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, after a war

Ahmed Sharaa says that those responsible for these crimes will be punished, even if they are "among those closest to us". Damascus authorities announced on Monday that they have decided to "end military operations" in the regions that suffered the initial assault by insurgents loyal to the former regime,

Syria’s interim government signed a deal Monday with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including a cease-fire and the merging of the main US-backed force there into the Syrian army.

Plenty of Syrians are disappointed by the lack of justice for the former regime. Deals have been cut with commanders responsible for massacres under Mr Assad. “It was very clear that there was something boiling which had to do with accountability and transitional justice,” says Orwa Ajjoub, a Syrian researcher at Malmo university.

According to a Syrian war monitor, the latest executions in Latakia is among the highest death tolls in the war-torn country since 2011. Most of the civilians belonged to the minority Islamic Alawite

Members of the Syrian security forces stand guard on a street in the coastal city of Jableh, Latakia

Syrian army sends reinforcements to Latakia and Tartus provinces, including hundreds of vehicles equipped with tanks, armored personnel carriers, and multiple rocket launchers - Anadolu Ajansı

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria are sounding the alarm as more than 1,000 people have been killed since last Thursday in what rights groups describe as some of the worst atrocities

The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and Tartous after four days of fighting between security forces and pro-Assad armed fighters. The unrest came only three months after the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in an offensive by opposition fighters.

SANA quoted another security official as saying that pro-Assad militants attacked a General Security Administration checkpoint near Jableh in Latakia, also targeting civilian vehicles.