Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those responsible,

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 600, a war monitoring group said Saturday.

Over 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar al-Assad and ensuing revenge killing, according to a war monitoring group.