BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian war monitor says gunmen loyal to the government have stormed three villages near Syria’s coast, killing nearly 70 men.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the killings occurred Friday in the villages of Sheer, Mukhtariyeh and Haffah.
“They killed every man they encountered,” the Observatory’s chief, Rami Abdurrahman, referring to gunmen who killed residents who belong to the country’s minority Alawite sect of former President Bashar Assad.
Abdurrahman said the gunmen shot dead 69 men and left without harming women or children in the three villages.
The Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV said more than 30 men were killed in the village of Mukhtariyeh after they were
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