Clashes between Assad fighters and country’s new Islamist rulers kill more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians ...

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...

Defence Ministry spokesman says security threats have been neutralised in al-Assad strongholds of Latakia and Tartous.

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 1 ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday.

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.

According to Hassan Abdel Ghani, the special fact-finding committee "will be given everything it will need to probe into the ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...