Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed president Bashar al-Assad swept its western coastal region. What began ...

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, according to a war monitor, in a serious challenge to the country’s new rulers.

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

PHOTOS: Clashes in Syria between government forces and Assad loyalists kill nearly 150 As the fighting raged, gunmen loyal to the new government stormed the villages of Sheer, Mukhtariyeh and ...

It's the worst violence since former President Bashar Assad was toppled. International alarm is growing over fighting in western Syria, where hundreds of civilians have been reportedly killed amid ...

The body of a Syrian security force member killed in clashes with loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad in coastal Syria, is carried for burial in the village of Al-Janoudiya, west of Idlib ...

Nearly 200 people have been killed in clashes between new government forces and loyalists in Syria - as the country faces the worst violence since the fall of President Assad. Dozens of men ...

In addition to around 140 killed in apparent revenge attacks in the villages, the dead include at least 50 members of Syria's government forces and 45 fighters loyal to Assad. The civil war that ...

The short-lived violence in the capital followed days of clashes concentrated in former Assad strongholds along Syria's Mediterranean coast. More than 1,300 people were killed in Syria in the ...

The Assad family, members of the minority Alawite sect, ruled Syria for over half a century until Assad was ousted late last year by Sunni Islamist militants who sought to reshape the country’s ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Hundreds of Syrian politicians and activists gathered Tuesday in Damascus to endorse the opening steps of the country’s political transition, a milestone event after decades ...

Syria's state news agency quoted an unnamed Defense Ministry official as saying that government forces have regained control of much of the areas from Assad loyalists. It added that authorities ...