Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during ...

Syrian army personnel gather as they head towards Latakia to join the fight against the fighters linked to Syria's ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo, Syria.(REUTERS) The village assaults ...

Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led government ...

Syrian security forces have battled for a second day to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led government faced ...

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 ...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights later said that 162 Alawite civilians were "executed" by security forces. "Five separate massacres claimed the lives of 162 civilians in the ...

Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led ...

Almost 200 people have died in clashes between Syrian government forces and fighters loyal to the country's former president Bashar al Assad, a war monitoring group has said. Fighters backing the ...

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ latest toll, the clashes killed 71 people over the past day, among them 35 members of the security forces, 32 gunmen and four civilians.

Nearly 200 people have been killed since the fighting broke out, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In addition to 69 killed in the villages, the dead include at ...

The situation in western Syria is currently the most serious security challenge to the new authorities in Damascus Syrian security forces enter the western city of Baniyas in Syria's coastal ...