Approximately a thousand people are estimated to have been killed in Syria’s coastal region after violence that followed an ...

Assad has been living in Moscow since leaving Syria in December as the offensive by the former insurgents neared Damascus. Asked about the outbreak of fighting in the coastal region and possible ...

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

an offshoot of Shia Islam whose adherents live mainly in Syria's western coastal region. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said 1,130 people were killed in the ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the 1 ...