Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

AMMAN, Jordan — Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries Sunday called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions on Syria and post-war reconciliation. The foreign ...

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. More than 1,000 people have been killed since Thursday ...

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours, the deadliest eruption of violence since the fall of the Assad regime in December. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Over 330 civilians from Syria's Alawite minority have reportedly been killed in reprisals carried out by troops loyal to the country's transitional government. Germany has called for an end to 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.

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to eyewitnesses and video, providing a gruesome picture of a crackdown against ...

With Bashar al-Assad's departure, the fate of Syria's Alawite community remains precarious. Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni ...

Fighters siding with Syria’s new government stormed three villages near the country’s coast, killing dozens of men in response to recent attacks on government security forces by loyalists of ...

It's the worst violence since former President Bashar Assad was toppled. International alarm is growing over fighting in western Syria, where hundreds of civilians have been reportedly killed amid ...