Syrian authorities end operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad. War monitor reports more than 1,000 civilians killed in worst violence since his overthrow. Majority of those killed were members of Alawite minority, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa says country will not be pulled back into civil strife.\”Syria will not allow any foreign powers or domestic parties to drag it into chaos or civil war,\” Sharaa said in a speech on Monday. the latest violence calls into question the authorities’ ability to rule and rebuild a country devastated by 13 years of civil war. The Syrian presidency has announced the formation of an \”independent committee\” to \”investigate the violations against civilians\” Amnesty International said Monday that the authorities should also \”grant independent national and international investigators access to Syria, including to Syria’s coastal areas\” to conduct their own fact-finding work. \”We are all victims, from all sects… I believe that Christians in the area, in general, have fears just like other groups and religions,\” said Michel Khoury, 42, a Christian lawyer in Latakia.