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

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

A war monitor says that clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the ...

According to the TV channel, several militia members said they wished to negotiate with the new Syrian authorities ...

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

Syrian forces loyal to the new government in Damascus have engaged in heavy fighting with remnants of the ousted Assad regime ...

Gunmen have ambushed a Syrian police patrol in a coastal town leaving at least 13 security members dead and many wounded, a war monitor said ...