A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has launched an investigation after hundreds of people were killed in fighting between security forces and fighters loyal to ousted President Bashar al ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — American Jews who ... the site of what had been Syria's oldest synagogue of all, in the Jobar area of Damascus, Hamra found it in ruins from the war, with an ordnance shell ...

It presents a major test of the new government’s authority and has raised the specter of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria, where tensions were already high as a result of the civil war.