More than 1,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Syria over the last several days according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The conflict is between remaining loyalists to ousted President Bashar al-Assad and forces belonging to the country’s new government which took over after Assad fled the country in December.

Outstanding issues between Damascus, the armed Druze groups, and the SDF can likely be resolved through protracted negotiations and mutual willingness to compromise.

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said Saturday,