US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that the United States condemns "radical Islamic terrorists, including foreign jihadists, who have killed people in western Syria in recent days," according to Sky News Arabia.

Rubio continued in a statement: "The United States stands with religious and ethnic minorities in Syria, including Christian, Druze, Alawite and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families."

He added: "The interim authorities in Syria must hold accountable the perpetrators of these massacres against minorities in Syria."
Germany also expressed its shock at reports of mass killings on the Syrian coast.

The German Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the transitional government in Syria has a responsibility to prevent further attacks, investigate the incidents and hold those responsible accountable, and in its statement it strongly urged all parties to end the violence.

France also condemned "with the utmost firmness the abuses that targeted civilians on sectarian grounds and prisoners" in Syria.

The French Foreign Ministry called, in a statement, "on the Syrian transitional authorities to ensure that independent investigations are conducted to fully uncover the circumstances of these crimes and to convict their perpetrators."

According to the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, the number of Alawite civilians killed on sectarian grounds reached 745 people, stressing that they were not involved in the fighting or affiliated with the regime.