The entrance to Banias was guarded by plainclothes men equipped with AK-47s and a few meters ahead by a group of police officers aiming their weapons at approaching cars, unsure whether to shoot or ...

The clashes are the worst since Assad was removed from power in early December by insurgent groups led by the Islamist Hayat ...

The skirmishes along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar al-Assad and ...

Clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have left more than 70 people dead and the area outside government control.

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

More than a dozen members of Syria’s government security forces were killed in clashes with loyalists of deposed president ...

Ambushes by Assad loyalists are among the fiercest yet, stretching the forces of the former rebels who seized power last year ...

Syria's transitional government under interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa launched a sweeping security operation Friday against ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that 71 people had been killed, including 35 members of government ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that a curfew has been imposed in the port cities of Latakia, Tartous and Homs, where the deadly clashes broke out on Thursday after Syrian ...