A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to sectarian warfare in Syria, but there is still a path for the country’s new rulers ...

In the worst outbreak of unrest since Syria’s transitional government took power, hundreds of people have been killed or ...

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 ...

A war monitor says two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad have ...

More than 1,000 people, including women and children, have been killed in Syria as its new Islamist rulers clash with ...

Assad’s downfall would be a chance to come together and heal the wounds of the victims’ families. It was not to be. The ...

The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...

Gunmen loyal to deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 15 security personnel in ambushes in the coastal province of Latakia, a security source told Al Jazeera. The attacks took ...

The violence that has killed hundreds across Syria reached Damascus and Aleppo on Monday, after Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed to ...

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 ...

The clashes raise concerns about Syria’s stability and interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s ability to reunify the country after 13 years of civil war.

In addition to 69 killed in the villages, the dead include at least 50 members of Syria’s government forces and 45 fighters loyal to Mr Assad. The civil war that has been raging in Syria since ...