In the worst outbreak of unrest since Syria’s transitional government took power, hundreds of people have been killed or ...

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

Interim leader accuses old regime loyalists and 'foreign backers' of trying to 'divide and destroy' the country ...

Syria said that it had ended a government military operation in response to insurgent attacks that resulted in a spiral of ...

Members of Syria’s Alawite minority said they feared widespread revenge killings, as grisly videos of field executions ...

As pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon, Syrian security forces were directed to keep communication devices away ...

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

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

Assad’s downfall would be a chance to come together and heal the wounds of the victims’ families. It was not to be. The ...

By Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon Violence between government security forces and gunmen loyal to the ousted regime of President Bashar al-Assad has erupted in Syria’s coastal region.

Syria’s Alawites – some 10% of the population – were prominent in the Assad regime, and while many Alawites have surrendered their weapons since December, many others have not. The attacks ...

Deadly fighting has erupted in Syria’s coastal region, a longtime bastion of support for Bashar al-Assad, the ousted president.