Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the ...

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.

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

At least 973 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in Syria in recent days as forces of the new ...

On March 6, clashes broke out between the security forces loyal to the new Syrian authorities and the armed groups supporting ...

Greece has been deeply alarmed over the renewed violence that broke out in Syria last week, in which over 1,000 people are ...

Syria's leader vowed on Sunday to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar ...

On March 6, clashes broke out in various areas of the Latakia governorate between Syrian security forces and armed groups ...

A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite ...

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...