While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

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.

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.

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

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

Members of Syria's small Christian community on the coast are living in fear after attacks killed more than 1,000 mostly ...

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, ...

Violence is flaring across parts of western Syria, as forces of the self-styled Syrian transitional government have clashed with Alawite militias 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 ...

On March 6, clashes broke out in various areas of the Latakia governorate between Syrian security forces and armed groups ...

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 ...