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There are six of us in the house, with my parents and my brothers. There’s been no electricity for four days, no water. We have nothing to eat and we do not dare go out,
he said on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safety
They gathered all the men on the roof and opened fire on them,
Haidar saidWe turned off the lights and hid. When we were able to flee our neighbourhood of Al Qusour, we found the roads full of corpses,
Kamel, a 35-year-old mother, told AFPThere are houses with four or five dead bodies in them,
Haidar saidIf I had been five minutes late, I would have been killed.”
He managed to escape with his wife and two children to a Sunni neighbourhood, but saidMore than 50 people from among my family and friends have been killed,
he addedThey entered the building and killed my only neighbour,
he saidWhat crime did the children commit? Are they also supporters of the (toppled) regime?”
she saidWe have appealed to be able to bury our dead,
he said
The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent days,
Rubio said in a statement
The United States stands with Syria's religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families,
he saidSurrender before it is too late."
Meanwhile, interim President al-Sharaa has urged fighters to lay down their arms, warning
No one has the right to erase another group.”
Sharaa had tried to quell such fears, telling CNN in December
We must preserve national unity (and) civil peace as much as possible and, God willing, we will be able to live together in this country,
Sharaa said from a mosque in Damascus
We will not allow for sedition or the targeting of any component of the Syrian people."
Latakia province security director Mustafa Kneifati told the news agencyI've lost seven friends since yesterday. My aunt was killed today near the city of Jableh; she was 78. Please protect us from this holocaust. We are pleading for help,
wrote a desperate Syrian citizen to Haaretz on Saturday
They are now trying to create havoc, disrupt life and attack vital installations,
he added
We are capable of living together in this country, as much as we can,
he added
Rest assured about Syria, this country has the characteristics for survival,
al-Sharaa said in a video at a mosque in Mazzah, Damascus
Many war criminals affiliated with the al-Assad regime and groups of armed remnants fled to the village,
the report added