CNN
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Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that warns the actual death toll could be “much higher.”
Government forces have killed at least 164 civilians, including seven children and 13 women, since launching “a large-scale security operation in dozens of villages across the countryside of Latakia, Tartous, and Hama,” the UK-based independent monitoring group the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) told CNN on Saturday.
Meanwhile, militants loyal to Assad have killed a further 147 people – 26 civilians…
