More than 1000 people, including women and children, have been killed in Syria as its new Islamist rulers clash with supporters of the previous regime.

Germany on Sunday condemned the recent outbreak of clashes in Syria's Tartus, Latakia, and Homs regions. A Foreign Ministry statement called on the Syrian transitional government to take responsibility to prevent further attacks, investigate the incidents, and hold those responsible accountable.

Fierce clashes over the past two days between security forces under Syria’s new Islamist government and gunmen belonging to the country’s Alawite religious minority killed scores of people, marking the most widespread violence since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

When it became fairly certain that former Syrian president Bashar Al Assad's regime was doomed in the first week of December, cars carrying hundreds of people clogged the main motorway from the centre of the country to the coast.

Syria's new government sent in security reinforcements and imposed curfews on a coastal area after major clashes with fighters loyal to the deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The killing of at least 745 civilians in massacres targeting the Alawite minority in Syria exposes the criminality of NATO powers that support and legitimize the Islamist HTS regime.

Russia shipped a diesel cargo to Syria onboard a tanker under U.S. sanctions, the first known such direct supply to the Middle Eastern country in more than a decade, LSEG data showed.

Syria witnessed the most intense and bloodiest clashes between the new Syrian government and Bashar al Assad loyalists since Assad's downfall on December 8.

Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday urged insurgents from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority to lay down their arms and surrender after the fiercest attacks on the war-torn country's new rulers yet.

At least 16 government security personnel were killed in a coastal region that was long a stronghold of the toppled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.