Syrian government forces are responding to a series of clashes and ambushes launched by partisans of the deposed Assad regime, the biggest domestic military challenge yet to the former rebel group ...

A Syrian security source said the pace of fighting had slowed around Latakia, Jabla and Baniyas, while forces searched ...

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

Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and affiliated fighters, experts said.

Syrian authorities face insurgency by Assad's Alawite sect Many killed in one Alawite town, monitor and activists say Saudi Arabia supports Syrian government against insurgency DAMASCUS, March 7 ...

The latest flareup in Syria's long civil war comes after insurgents opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad over the past days captured large parts of the northern city of Aleppo, as well as ...

A UK-based independent monitoring group, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), said that at least 642 people have died in the violence, including scores of civilians who were killed after ...