Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ...

The recent surge in violence reflects the power vacuum left in the wake of Assad’s downfall. Remnants of Assad’s loyalist ...

Syria's new leader has vowed accountability and an investigation after reports of mass killings of Alawite civilians ...

A war monitoring group said more than 1,000 were killed in revenge attacks and clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad.

Pro-government militias who took part in a coastal security campaign have started withdrawing into the centre of Syria, ...

The observatory and activists released footage showing dozens of bodies in civilian clothing piled in the yard of a house, ...

Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad's ...

Two days of fighting along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest battles since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar ...

A war monitor says that clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the ...

Thursday's attack involved several groups of Assad-aligned militias who targeted security patrols and checkpoints in the Jableh area and surrounding countryside, the chief of security in Latakia ...

They are the worst since Assad was removed from power in early December by insurgent groups led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.