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Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers killed more than 340 people, the head of a war monitor said.

Of the nearly 1,000 civilians killed, nearly 200 were in Baniyas, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor. The toll could not be independently confirmed.