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US, Russia ask UN Security Council to meet Monday on SyriaClashes in Syria, which a war monitoring group said had already killed 1,000 people, mostly civilians, continued for a fourth day in Assad's coastal heartland.

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Last Updated 10 March 2025, 05:45 IST

<div class="paragraphs"><p>A member of the Syrian security forces secures an area, after hundreds were killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country's new Islamist rulers in Latakia, Syria March 9, 2025.</p></div>

A member of the Syrian security forces secures an area, after hundreds were killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country's new Islamist rulers in Latakia, Syria March 9, 2025.

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The United States and Russia have asked the United Nations Security Council to meet behind closed doors on Monday over the escalating violence in Syria, diplomats said on Sunday.

(Published 10 March 2025, 05:45 IST)