More than 700 killed over the course of 48 hours in Syria

While the world's attention is on Ukraine and Israel, ISIS can behead victims from Syria all the way to Iraq and no one will care how many they murder.

(IBT) More than 700 people were killed in clashes over two days between pro-government forces and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) militants in Syria.

Activists from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that the deaths represented the bloodiest fighting since the civil war began in 2011.

Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and Isis militants battled following the rebel group's capture of the Shaar gas field east of Homs city.

By Thursday 270 have been killed in clashes while the death toll for the day's combined unrest was 396.

Friday's death toll reached 314 while 90 more people are still unaccounted for. Precise numbers of Isis and pro-government casualties in the overall death toll remain unknown.

Rami Abdul Rahman, head of SOHR, said that the deaths were the first time 700 had been killed in the space of two days since the onset of the conflict.

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