Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...

More than 600 people, including women and children, have been killed in Syria as its new Islamist rulers clash with supporters of the previous regime.

The recent surge in violence reflects the power vacuum left in the wake of Assad’s downfall. Remnants of Assad’s loyalist ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and ...

BEIRUT: Syrian security forces deployed heavily in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on Saturday, after a war ...

Syria’s coastal region is witnessing escalating violence, with at least 340 Alawite civilians killed in documented field ...

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

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

Clashes between Syrian security forces under the country’s new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President ...

A Syrian war monitor said Friday that security forces "executed" 69 members of the Alawite minority, a day after deadly ...

Syria's new authorities launched a sweeping security operation Friday after clashes with fighters loyal to former president ...