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

Fierce clashes over the past two days between security forces under Syria’s new Islamist government and gunmen belonging to ...

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 ...

Scores have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, in a serious challenge to the country’s new rulers. By Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut ...

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

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 ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

The unrest has been the bloodiest outbreak of violence since the Assad regime was ousted in early December by rebels who became the country’s new leaders. It presents a major test of the new ...

Israel has stepped up its attacks on Syrian territory since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on 8 December last year ...

Children's school uniforms hung on the door. Their academic workbooks lay on their desks. Toys covered in dust were still sitting on the floor. That's how Naila Al-Abbasi found her sister Rania's ...

(Latakia is the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority sect, from which the Assad family and regime hailed.) The response by government forces was worrying. For example, video appearing to show ...