Syria has been engulfed in a civil war. Until three months ago, dictator Bashar al-Assad controlled the government, but he ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

The phrase "Can a leopard change its spots?" (Jeremiah 13:23) best captures the global skepticism surrounding Ahmed al-Sharaa ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Syrian interim government ends a military operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, following clashes ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

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 ...

Defence Ministry spokesman says security threats have been neutralised in al-Assad strongholds of Latakia and Tartous.

A Syrian security source said the pace of fighting had slowed around Latakia, Jabla and Baniyas, while forces searched ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

It seems that the 14-year-long civil war isn’t quite over in Syria. Since Thursday, violent clashes between deposed dictator ...