The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and Tartous after four days of ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Violence is flaring across parts of western Syria, as forces of the self-styled Syrian transitional government have clashed with Alawite militias and ...

A shadowy new armed group headed by a former Assad army commander, the Military Council to Liberate Syria, announced an insurgency against the country’s new rulers, calling on Syrians to join its ...

Syria’s government has ended a security operation in the country’s western coastal region, home to loyalists of former leader ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said 1,130 people were killed in clashes, including 830 ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, ...

As Syria’s Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa struggles to ensure stability in the country, militant groups supporting ousted ...

Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...

The violence broke out when gunmen loyal to ousted president Bashar al-Assad ambushed a Syrian security patrol near the port ...