The United Nations accused both Syrian government forces and militias associated with former President Bashar al-Assad of crimes in a Thursday report on the March violence along Syria’s coast. The UN reserved their strongest condemnations for groups affiliated with the new government but said the killings of mostly Alawite civilians were not the result of official policy.

The Syria Commission of Inquiry report covered violence in western and central Syria from January onward, focusing on the early March killings in the Latakia and Tartous provinces. More than 1,000 people, mostly Alawite civilians, were killed by government-aligned forces in March following ambushes by pro-Assad militias on the interim security forces.

The commission said in a press release that both sides committed violations that “likely amount to war crimes.”

Assad was deposed in a December offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist group with origins in al-Qaeda. HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa subsequently became president of Syria and is leading the transitional government.