The bloodletting between Alawites and forces backing Syria’s new government surprised many. But tensions had been building ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring ...

Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of one of the victims of an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian city of Daraa, in ...

Seven weeks had passed since he stunned the world by conquering most of Syria in an 11-day blitzkrieg that put an end to the ...

The overthrown president Bashar al Assad belonged to the sect ... Sticks had been placed in the earth to signal a body buried beneath. We are told a family of 17 are in one of the graves.

Syria has entered a three-month period of political and military uncertainty following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime ...

It was the bloodiest outbreak of violence since rebels ousted the longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad, in early December ... Every two or three meters, a body lay on the ground, he said.

In a televised address, Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed to bring the remnants of the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime to trial, urging security forces to avoid overreaction and ensuring a ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday urged his countrymen to unite and pledged to establish a transitional justice body, as he welcomed ... fall of former President Bashar al-Assad. He also said the state ...

It is the worst violence in Syria since rebels toppled Assad in December and installed an Islamist transitional government. A war monitoring group, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

The body -- which did not exist under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad-- will be tasked with "coordinating and managing security and political policies", the country's presidency said, according to a ...

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s minority sect were a ...