A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

which has monitored the Syrian conflict since 2011, said early Sunday that more than 1,000 people had been killed in the ...

The bloodshed in the coastal heartland of former ruler Bashar al-Assad saw more than 800 people killed ... in Sunni-majority Syria. Al-Kheetan said the killings “appear to have been carried out on a ...

The violence has been concentrated in the coastal areas of Tartus and Latakia ... human rights abuses in Syria. The group said that the vast majority of people killed in the current clashes ...

More than 1,300 people were killed in Syria in the three days to late Sunday ... where at least 545 civilians were reported to have been killed, and Tartus, where at least 252 civilians were ...

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ...

After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

“I reassure our people that Syria today has passed the test once again and is forging a way toward the future with strength and determination.” Most residents in Tartus and Latakia were ...

The Alawite minority makes up 10% of Syria's 24 million people and is concentrated in the country's coastal strip, around cities like Tartus, Jableh, Banias, and Latakia, but also has a ...

TARTUS, Syria -- The gunfire began at dawn Friday in the town of ... When the commotion grew louder, she said, she crept to the window and peeled back the curtain. Outside, dozens of people were ...

TARTUS, Syria — The gunfire began at dawn Friday ... she crept to the window and peeled back the curtain. Outside, dozens of people were fleeing down the road, many in their pajamas, as four ...