Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed ...

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

Syria's transitional government on Friday launched a sweeping operation in western coastal areas against fighters loyal to ...

Syria's new authorities launched a sweeping security operation Friday after clashes with fighters loyal to former president ...

Syria’s new authorities launched a sweeping security operation yesterday after clashes with fighters loyal to former ...

SANA said meanwhile that security forces had detained Ibrahim Huweija, a general who was "accused of hundreds of assassinations" under the rule of Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...